The long nights that Pier Giorgio Frassati spent on his knees in front of the Blessed Sacrament had something to do with the long days spent in service of the poor.

The only thing particularly new about the "new atheism" is its nastiness.

The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.

There's no way up but down.

The Bible constantly warns against a merely mercenary relationship with God - a friendship of convenience or self-interest. We should not love God simply because doing so will produce many consolations in our life. We must enter a true relationship, were we fall in love not with His benefits, but with Him.

God is a placebo for your own mortality.

Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization.