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

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.

As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and divine grace heal the intellect and the will of the effects of concupiscence. We can begin to see things clearly.

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

I was steeped in the understanding that if 'something is Roman [Catholic], it must be wrong.

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

Down through the centuries, the Church has carefully preserved, protected, and defended its Marian teachings, because to give them up would be to give up the gospel.