Christopher West Quotes
Marital love is a reflection of how God loves. It is free, total, faithful and fruitful.
If we want to know what's most sacred in this world, all we need to do is look for what is most violently profaned.
When marriage exposes a person's selfishness and sins it's doing what it is meant to do: bringing our sins and wounds to light so we can recognize them, confess them, and begin the healing process.
In the sacraments, spirit and matter "kiss." Heaven and earth embrace in a union that will never end.
Marriage is the most basic expression of the vocation to love that all men and women have as persons made in God's image.
Holiness is not first a matter of doing anything. It is first and foremost a matter of letting it be done. Holiness is to conceive the love of God within and to bring it forth to the world.
For those with the purity to see it, a nursing mother is one of the most precious, most beautiful, and most holy of all possible images of woman.
Marriage is a living sign that truly communicates the love of Christ and the Church.
In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility.
All the hungers we have for love, for union, for happiness are given by God to lead us to him. The difference between a saint and the greatest sinner is where they go to satisfy that hunger.
...the Pope vigorously upholds the real power of redemption to liberate the human heart from the domination of lust, calling men and women to a new "ethos.