Top 39 Robert Barron Quotes
#3. 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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#4. Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.
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#5. A story can sing the truth and not just tell it.
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#6. 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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#8. We have laws against polluting our rivers but not against polluting our minds.
Robert Barron
#9. Bob Dylan said, "The executioner's face is always well-hidden". That's the problem: The cross pulls that hood off.
Robert Barron
#10. Meek - free from the addiction to ordinary power - you can become a conduit of true divine power to the world.
Robert E. Barron
#11. 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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#12. Your faith will grow only in the measure that you give it away.
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#13. 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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#14. The only thing particularly new about the "new atheism" is its nastiness.
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#15. The human race is one big dysfunctional family.
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#16. When at the consecration the priest moves into the mode of first-person quotation, he is not speaking in his own person but in the person of Jesus - and that's why those words change the elements.
Robert E. Barron
#17. 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
#18. 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.
Robert E. Barron
#19. But the true emperor, Luke insists, is not the one who feeds himself but who is willing to offer his life as food for the other. At the climax of his life, this child, come of age, would say to his friends, "This is my body, which will be given for you' do this in memory of me" (Lk 22:19).
Robert E. Barron
#20. We are exceptionally good at seeing the faults in others and exceptionally adept at ignoring the faults in ourselves.
Robert Barron
#22. The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.
Robert Barron
#23. Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.
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#24. 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.
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#25. Love actually is a great act of the will. It's when I say, "I desire your good, not for my sake but for yours". To love is to break out of the black hole of the ego and say, "My life is about you".
Bishop Robert Barron
#26. Easter is an earthquake, an explosion. If you see it as less than that, you're not getting it.
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#27. Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated.
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#28. The slightest cooperation with God's grace can provoke a massive spiritual change.
Robert Barron
#29. Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness.
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#30. 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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#31. The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.
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#33. Nostalgia, it's nothing but pain," Robert said. "It's memory poisoned by the anguish of loss.
Laird Barron
#34. When God went to the cross he made even death itself a place of hope.
Robert Barron
#35. I don't think we'll understand Advent correctly until we see it as a preparation for a revolution.
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#36. The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.
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#37. Robert Service once said dying is easy, it's the keeping on living that's hard, and of course the poet was on the money, as poets usually are when it comes to smugly self-evident affirmations.
Laird Barron
#38. 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.
Robert Barron
#39. Hans Urs von Balthasar maintained that the best evangelistic strategy is to capture people with the beautiful, then enchant them with the good, and then lead them to the true.
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