Robert Barron Quotes - Page 2

• Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness.

  Robert Barron

  Intellectual, Culture, Resistance

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• 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

  Media, Ethos, Years

  Source: brandonvogt.com

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• Christians have no business moping around.

  Robert Barron

  Christian

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• The only thing particularly new about the "new atheism" is its nastiness.

  Robert Barron

  Atheism, Nastiness

  Robert Barron (2015). “Exploring Catholic Theology: Essays on God, Liturgy, and Evangelization”, p.28, Baker Academic

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• 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

  Athletic, Way, Heroic

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• We need to mock false gods publicly.

  Robert Barron

  Needs, Mock, False Gods

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• 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.

  Robert Barron

  Beautiful, People, Strategy

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• Bob Dylan said, "The executioner's face is always well-hidden". That's the problem: The cross pulls that hood off.

  Robert Barron

  Bob, Faces, Problem

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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.

  Robert Barron

  Blessed, Night, Long

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• God is a placebo for your own mortality.

  Robert Barron

  God, Mortality, Placebo

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• Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization.

  Robert Barron

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• There's no way up but down.

  Robert Barron

  Way

  Robert Barron, John L. Allen, Jr. (2017). “To Light a Fire on the Earth: Proclaiming the Gospel in a Secular Age”, p.162, Image

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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.

  Robert Barron

  Prayer, Mean, Mind

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