Loving difficult people will refine us. Perhaps only in heaven will our love be so perfected that we can actually like these people, too. St. Augustine spoke of a man who, on earth, had chronic gas problems; in heaven, his flatulence became perfect music.

We...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough.

The laws of God, like the law of gravity, do not depend upon how I feel about them. They are inexorable.

To go to Mass is to go to Heaven.

God sometimes gives us what we want so we'll learn to trust Him to give us what we need.

A joyless Catholic is the devil's best tool. A joyful Catholic is God's greatest instrument.

The Mass-and I mean every single Mass-is heaven on earth. Literally.