Love is something worth suffering for.

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

Mary is God's masterpiece. Have you ever walked into a museum where an artist was displaying his work? Can you imagine him being offended if you were viewing what he considered to be his masterpiece? Would he resent your looking at that instead of at him? 'Hey, you should be looking at me!' Rather, the artist would receive honor because of the attention you were giving his work. And Mary is God's work, from beginning to end.

Love is something worth suffering for.

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

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.

At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.