Bob Dylan said, "The executioner's face is always well-hidden". That's the problem: The cross pulls that hood off.

The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.

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

Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.

The cross is Jesus going into the very lair of death. He goes to meet head-on that which frightens us the most. And what does He do? He battles it. He engages it. And finally he conquers it.

Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.

Turn your car into a monastery.

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

Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.

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

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

All children are morbid: it's their one saving grace.

When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through.

I don't think anybody reads a book of poetry front to back. Editors and reviewers only. I don't think anybody else does.

A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon's mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.

We thought philosophy ought to be patient and unravel people's mental blocks. Trouble with doing that is, once you've unravelled them, their heads fall off.

Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

The only person worthy of your love is not one who overstayed in the relationship without a single change, but one, who appeared like an angel, and used a single day to make a million change.

Never miss a political meeting if you think there's the slightest chance you'll wish you'd been there.

The greatest leader is not someone who is the only leader. The greatest leader is one who inspires others to be leaders.