Robert Barron may refer to:
The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.
Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization.
We need to mock false gods publicly.
Your faith will grow only in the measure that you give it away.
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.
We have laws against polluting our rivers but not against polluting our minds.
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.
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.
A story can sing the truth and not just tell it.
Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated.
Easter is an earthquake, an explosion. If you see it as less than that, you're not getting it.
The only thing particularly new about the "new atheism" is its nastiness.
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.
Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.
Bob Dylan said, "The executioner's face is always well-hidden". That's the problem: The cross pulls that hood off.
God is a placebo for your own mortality.
Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.
Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.
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.
The slightest cooperation with God's grace can provoke a massive spiritual change.