Christ's invitation to the priesthood is an invitation to a way of life that is athletic in its intensity and heroic in its form.

Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.

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.

Hans Urs von Balthasar maintained that the best evangelistic strategy is to capture people with the beautiful, then enchant them with the good, and then lead them to the true.

Your faith will grow only in the measure that you give it away.

There's no way up but down.

I don't think we'll understand Advent correctly until we see it as a preparation for a revolution.