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

To go to Mass is to go to Heaven.

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

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.

Love is something worth suffering for.

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.

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