60 Quotes by Robert Barron

This Church with which we should be thinking is the home of all, not a small chapel that can hold only a small group of selected people.” What the Pope is signaling here is that the Church, as his predecessor Paul VI put it, doesn’t have a mission; it is a mission, for its purpose is to cause the merciful face of Jesus to gaze upon everyone in the world. It is not an exclusive club where only the morally perfect are welcome, but, rather, a home for sinners, which means a home for everybody. And.

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.

In the, Dei Verbum, there is a great statement of Vatican II: The bible is the word of god but in the words of men.

Thoughtful Christians must battle the myth of the eternal warfare of science and religion. We must continually preach, as John Paul II did, that faith and reason are complementary and compatible paths toward the knowledge of truth. – BISHOP BARRON.

A story can sing the truth and not just tell it.

Balthasar says anything beautiful first arrests you – you’re stopped in your tracks by it. Then, Balthasar says, the beautiful elects you. You’ve been chosen. Not everyone who hears Dylan becomes a fan, but I got elected. Finally, he says, the beautiful always sends you. You’re sent on a mission.

One of Barron’s maxims is “The sure sign that God is alive in you is joy.

Meek – free from the addiction to ordinary power – you can become a conduit of true divine power to the world.

Jesus turned upside down many of the social conventions of his time and place precisely because he was so concerned to place the instantiation of the Kingdom of God first in the minds of his followers.