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

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

Turn your car into a monastery.

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

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

We have laws against polluting our rivers but not against polluting our minds.

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.