Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization.

Christians have no business moping around.

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

Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization.

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

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

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.