When God went to the cross he made even death itself a place of hope.

Christians have no business moping around.

Turn your car into a monastery.

Easter is an earthquake, an explosion. If you see it as less than that, you're not getting it.

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.

Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization.

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.