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.

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.

That was a double negative, Jemail. By saying that you haven’t seen nobody, you’re actually saying that you have seen somebody.

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

One thing I've always been grateful for is the diversity of my listeners.

When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly.

Waiting for your answer is one of the most painful things I have ever been through. At least let me know whether or not I hurt you.

The improvement of relations with German is positive, but this does not mean that we no longer have very important problems.

Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason!

I don't like producing. It's a lot of meetings you sit through that amount to nothing.

The greatest formula that can liberate, cleanse and elevate the mind is Rama-Name, the Name of Rama.

Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.