The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.

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.

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.

The holiness of God is like a white light: pure, simple, complete. But when that light shines, as it were, through the prisms of individual human lives, it breaks into an infinite variety of colors... each one reveals a unique dimension of the divine holiness.

The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.

There's no way up but down.

Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.