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

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

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.

Catholicism is a matter of the body and the senses as much as it is a matter of the mind, precisely because the Word became flesh.

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

The human race is one big dysfunctional family.

There's no way up but down.