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

God is a placebo for your own mortality.

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

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.

The human race is one big dysfunctional family.

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.

The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.