Top 50 Robert Barron Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.”

— Robert Barron

2. “I don’t think we’ll understand Advent correctly until we see it as a preparation for a revolution.”

— Robert Barron

3. “The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.”

— Robert Barron

4. “Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.”

— Robert Barron

5. “Your faith will grow only in the measure that you give it away.”

— Robert Barron

6. “The Emperor Napoleon is said to have confronted Cardinal Consalvi, the secretary of state to Pope Pius VII, saying that he, Napoleon, would destroy the Church – to which the Cardinal deftly responded, “Oh my little man, you think you’re going to succeed in accomplishing what centuries of priests and bishops have tried and failed to do?”

— Robert Barron

7. “The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you’re in mission territory.”

— Robert Barron

8. “Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.”

— Robert Barron

9. “Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated.”

— Robert Barron

10. “We have laws against polluting our rivers but not against polluting our minds.”

— Robert Barron

11. “Easter is an earthquake, an explosion. If you see it as less than that, you’re not getting it.”

— Robert Barron

12. “The slightest cooperation with God’s grace can provoke a massive spiritual change.”

— Robert Barron

13. “When God went to the cross he made even death itself a place of hope.”

— Robert Barron

14. “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 Barron

15. “God is a placebo for your own mortality.”

— Robert Barron

16. “Christians have no business moping around.”

— Robert Barron

17. “There’s no way up but down.”

— Robert Barron

18. “The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.”

— Robert Barron

19. “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

20. “Christianity is not a set of private convictions that we cultivate inwardly or whisper among ourselves. It is the message that the whole world needs to hear. We who have heard it must become agents of subversion and transformation.”

— Robert Barron

21. “We need to mock false gods publicly.”

— Robert Barron

22. “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

23. “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

24. “We are exceptionally good at seeing the faults in others and exceptionally adept at ignoring the faults in ourselves.”

— Robert Barron

25. “It has been suggested that the heart of sin is taking oneself too seriously.”

— Robert Barron

26. “When our lives revolve around Christ we find order and harmony. And by implication, whenever something other than Christ – money, power, pleasure, honor – fills the center, the soul falls into disharmony. The well-ordered soul begins to wobble and go off-kilter.”

— Robert Barron

27. “Turn your car into a monastery.”

— Robert Barron

28. “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

29. “Bob Dylan said, “The executioner’s face is always well-hidden”. That’s the problem: The cross pulls that hood off.”

— Robert Barron

30. “Jesus turned upside down many of the social conventions of his time and place precisely because he was so concerned to place the instantiation of the Kingdom of God first in the minds of his followers.”

— Robert Barron

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

— Robert Barron

32. “Essential to the Catholic mind is what I would characterize as a keen sense of the prolongation of the Incarnation throughout space and time, an extension that is made possible through the mystery of the church.”

— Robert Barron

33. “Holy people are those who realize that they participate in something and Someone infinitely greater than themselves, that they are but fragments of Reality,” he says. “Far from crushing them, this awareness makes them great, capacious, whole.”

— Robert Barron

34. “Meek – free from the addiction to ordinary power – you can become a conduit of true divine power to the world.”

— Robert Barron

35. “Thomas Aquinas was asked, “What must I do to be a saint?” and he said, “Will it.” Be a saint, and you’ll unleash the power of grace and holiness.”

— Robert Barron

36. “The human race is one big dysfunctional family.”

— Robert Barron

37. “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

38. “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 Barron

39. “The shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe is the most visited religious site in the Christian world, surpassing Lourdes, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and St. Peter’s itself. People still go there by the millions every year in order to commune with La Virgen Morena, many journeying to her over many miles on their knees.”

— Robert Barron

40. “Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization.”

— Robert Barron

41. “This Church with which we should be thinking is the home of all, not a small chapel that can hold only a small group of selected people.” What the Pope is signaling here is that the Church, as his predecessor Paul VI put it, doesn’t have a mission; it is a mission, for its purpose is to cause the merciful face of Jesus to gaze upon everyone in the world. It is not an exclusive club where only the morally perfect are welcome, but, rather, a home for sinners, which means a home for everybody. And.”

— Robert Barron

42. “One of Barron’s maxims is “The sure sign that God is alive in you is joy.”

— Robert Barron

43. “Balthasar says anything beautiful first arrests you – you’re stopped in your tracks by it. Then, Balthasar says, the beautiful elects you. You’ve been chosen. Not everyone who hears Dylan becomes a fan, but I got elected. Finally, he says, the beautiful always sends you. You’re sent on a mission.”

— Robert Barron

44. “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

45. “But the true emperor, Luke is telling us, arrives vulnerable and exposed, because the good life is not about the protection of the ego, but rather about the willingness to become open to the other in love.”

— Robert Barron

46. “Thoughtful Christians must battle the myth of the eternal warfare of science and religion. We must continually preach, as John Paul II did, that faith and reason are complementary and compatible paths toward the knowledge of truth. – BISHOP BARRON.”

— Robert Barron

47. “The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments,” Ratzinger said, “namely, the saints the Church has produced, and the art which has grown in her womb.”

— Robert Barron

48. “But above all, fight by your very holiness of life; fight by becoming the saint that God wants you to be; fight by encouraging a decent young man to become a priest; fight by doing a Holy Hour every day for the sanctification of the Church; fight by coming to Mass regularly; fight by evangelizing; fight by doing the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.”

— Robert Barron

49. “It is fascinating to note how often in the history of Christianity the teaching concerning Jesus’s presence in the Eucharist.”

— Robert Barron

50. “A story can sing the truth and not just tell it.”

— Robert Barron