Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.

We need to mock false gods publicly.

Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], Teresa of Avila, Joseph Ratzinger, and Edith Stein-in all their intellectual rigor-as allies in the the struggle against this dismissive atheism.

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.

Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness.

God is a placebo for your own mortality.

The human race is one big dysfunctional family.