60 Quotes by Robert Barron

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

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

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

Turn your car into a monastery.

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.

Essential to the Catholic mind is what I would characterize as a keen sense of the prolongation of the Incarnation throughout space and time, an extension that is made possible through the mystery of the church.

When our lives revolve around Christ we find order and harmony. And by implication, whenever something other than Christ – money, power, pleasure, honor – fills the center, the soul falls into disharmony. The well-ordered soul begins to wobble and go off-kilter.

Christianity is not a set of private convictions that we cultivate inwardly or whisper among ourselves. It is the message that the whole world needs to hear. We who have heard it must become agents of subversion and transformation.

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