If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.

To go to Mass is to go to Heaven.

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.

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

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

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

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.