By far the most dangerous people in the world are optimists (those who believe that all can be made well here below). If you think all can be made well in this world, then you will go to any extreme to make it happen. There is the story of the 20th century. As Lenin said, "You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs".

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

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

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.

There's no way up but down.

Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization.

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