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Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.
Robert Barron
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Robert Barron
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: November 19
Catholic Priest
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Chicago
Illinois
Robert Emmet Barron
Robert E. Barron
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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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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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When God went to the cross he made even death itself a place of hope.
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The only thing particularly new about the new atheism is its nastiness.
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Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated.
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The slightest cooperation with God's grace can provoke a massive spiritual change.
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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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We need to mock false gods publicly.
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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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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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There's no way up but down.
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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.
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We have laws against polluting our rivers but not against polluting our minds.
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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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Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness.
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Turn your car into a monastery.
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