Robert Barron Quotes
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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.
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Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated.
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The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.
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The holiness of God is like a white light: pure, simple, complete. But when that light shines, as it were, through the prisms of individual human lives, it breaks into an infinite variety of colors... each one reveals a unique dimension of the divine holiness.
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Christians have no business moping around.
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God is a placebo for your own mortality.
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We need to mock false gods publicly.
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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.
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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.
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Easter is an earthquake, an explosion. If you see it as less than that, you're not getting it.
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If the Word truly became flesh, then God had not only a mother, but also a grandmother, cousins, great-aunts, and weird uncles. If the Word truly dwelt among us, then he was part of a family that, like most, was fairly dysfunctional, a mix of the good and bad, the saintly and the sinful, the glorious and the not so glorious. And this is such good news for us.
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For many people, the big feast of the year is Christmas, but for Christians, the truly great feast is Easter. Without Easter, without the Resurrection, we would not have the gift of salvation. Jesus had to rise from the dead or else he would have just been another failed Messiah and his birth would be a forgotten footnote of history.
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Your faith will grow only in the measure that you give it away.
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Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization.
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The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.
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The slightest cooperation with God's grace can provoke a massive spiritual change.
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The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.
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When God went to the cross he made even death itself a place of hope.
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There's no way up but down.
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Bob Dylan said, "The executioner's face is always well-hidden". That's the problem: The cross pulls that hood off.
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Turn your car into a monastery.
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The only thing particularly new about the "new atheism" is its nastiness.
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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.
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We have laws against polluting our rivers but not against polluting our minds.
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Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.
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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.
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Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.
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I don't think we'll understand Advent correctly until we see it as a preparation for a revolution.
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Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.
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Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], Teresa of Avila, Joseph Ratzinger, and Edith Stein-in all their intellectual rigor-as allies in the the struggle against this dismissive atheism.
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