Robert Barron famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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
God is a placebo for your own mortality.
-- Robert Barron

#God #Mortality #Placebo
Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.
-- Robert Barron

#Faith #Inspiration #Heart
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

#Joy #Alive
Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.
-- Robert Barron

#Love Is #Feelings #Sentiments
The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.
-- Robert Barron

#Sunday #Church #Territory
Your faith will grow only in the measure that you give it away.
-- Robert Barron

#Giving #Grows
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
The slightest cooperation with God's grace can provoke a massive spiritual change.
-- Robert Barron

#Spiritual #Grace #Cooperation
We are exceptionally good at seeing the faults in others and exceptionally adept at ignoring the faults in ourselves.
-- Robert Barron

#Faults #Adept #Seeing
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

#Falling In Love #Self #Benefits
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
When God went to the cross he made even death itself a place of hope.
-- Robert Barron

#Crosses #Made
Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated.
-- Robert Barron

#Love Is #Cold #Without Love
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

#Jesus #Battle #Doe
We have laws against polluting our rivers but not against polluting our minds.
-- Robert Barron

#Law #Rivers #Mind
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

#Mother #Cousin #Uncles
Turn your car into a monastery.
-- Robert Barron

#Car #Monasteries #Turns
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

#Believe #Thinking #Eggs
For many people, the big feast of the year is Christmas, but for Christians, the truly great feast is Easter. Without Easter, without the Resurrection, we would not have the gift of salvation. Jesus had to rise from the dead or else he would have just been another failed Messiah and his birth would be a forgotten footnote of history.
-- Robert Barron

#Christian #Jesus #Easter
A story can sing the truth and not just tell it.
-- Robert Barron

#Stories
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.
-- Robert Barron

#Mind #Matter #Body
Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness.
-- Robert Barron

#Intellectual #Culture #Resistance
I don't think we'll understand Advent correctly until we see it as a preparation for a revolution.
-- Robert Barron

#Thinking #Preparation #Revolution
Easter is an earthquake, an explosion. If you see it as less than that, you're not getting it.
-- Robert Barron

#Easter #Earthquakes #Explosions

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