60 Quotes by Robert Barron

We have laws against polluting our rivers but not against polluting our minds.

When God went to the cross he made even death itself a place of hope.

The slightest cooperation with God’s grace can provoke a massive spiritual change.

There’s no way up but down.

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.

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

God is a placebo for your own mortality.

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.

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.