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.

We are exceptionally good at seeing the faults in others and exceptionally adept at ignoring the faults in ourselves.

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 surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.

For many people, the big feast of the year is Christmas, but for Christians, the truly great feast is Easter. Without Easter, without the Resurrection, we would not have the gift of salvation. Jesus had to rise from the dead or else he would have just been another failed Messiah and his birth would be a forgotten footnote of history.

There's no way up but down.

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