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

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.

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

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.

Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God's strength is always there for us.