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.

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

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

If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.

To go to Mass is to go to Heaven.

To deny the force of divine judgment, then, is to make God less than God, and to make us less than His children. For every father must discipline His children, and paternal discipline is itself a mercy, a fatherly expression of love.

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