Catholicism is a matter of the body and the senses as much as it is a matter of the mind, precisely because the Word became flesh.

Christ's invitation to the priesthood is an invitation to a way of life that is athletic in its intensity and heroic in its form.

By far the most dangerous people in the world are optimists (those who believe that all can be made well here below). If you think all can be made well in this world, then you will go to any extreme to make it happen. There is the story of the 20th century. As Lenin said, "You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs".

In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling the effervescence of relatively superficial preoccupations.

There's no way up but down.

We need to mock false gods publicly.

Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated.