Robert Barron Quotes - Page 2

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

Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness.

Christians have no business moping around.

We need to mock false gods publicly.

The only thing particularly new about the "new atheism" is its nastiness.

Christ's invitation to the priesthood is an invitation to a way of life that is athletic in its intensity and heroic in its form.

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.

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

The long nights that Pier Giorgio Frassati spent on his knees in front of the Blessed Sacrament had something to do with the long days spent in service of the poor.

God is a placebo for your own mortality.

Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization.

There's no way up but down.

In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling the effervescence of relatively superficial preoccupations.