Bob Dylan said, "The executioner's face is always well-hidden". That's the problem: The cross pulls that hood off. Robert Barron More Quotes by Robert Barron More Quotes From Robert Barron Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth. Robert Barron beautiful The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy. Robert Barron alive joy The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory. Robert Barron territory sunday church Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other. Robert Barron sentiments feelings love-is Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated. Robert Barron without-love cold love-is The Bible constantly warns against a merely mercenary relationship with God - a friendship of convenience or self-interest. We should not love God simply because doing so will produce many consolations in our life. We must enter a true relationship, were we fall in love not with His benefits, but with Him. Robert Barron benefits falling-in-love self We are exceptionally good at seeing the faults in others and exceptionally adept at ignoring the faults in ourselves. Robert Barron adept seeing faults 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. Robert Barron battle doe jesus The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories. Robert Barron letting-go fun drama 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. Robert Barron cousin uncles mother 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. Robert Barron unique simple white By far the most dangerous people in the world are optimists (those who believe that all can be made well here below). If you think all can be made well in this world, then you will go to any extreme to make it happen. There is the story of the 20th century. As Lenin said, "You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs". Robert Barron eggs believe thinking Turn your car into a monastery. Robert Barron monasteries turns car The slightest cooperation with God's grace can provoke a massive spiritual change. Robert Barron cooperation grace spiritual Your faith will grow only in the measure that you give it away. Robert Barron grows giving Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes. Robert Barron inspiration faith heart 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. Robert Barron atheist struggle writing We have laws against polluting our rivers but not against polluting our minds. Robert Barron law mind rivers Easter is an earthquake, an explosion. If you see it as less than that, you're not getting it. Robert Barron explosions easter earthquakes The great danger of the new media is that it seems to relish the superficial. There has been an ethos within the Church for many years to pursue an accommodationist strategy in regards to the culture, and this has resulted in a public presentation of the Faith that is often nebulous or "dumbed down." Robert Barron ethos media years
