Thursday, July 7, 2011

A curious quirk of the soul


I came across this observation in St. Alphonsus Liguori's "Practice of the Love of Jesus Christ:"

"When the temporal goods of this world are in question, worldlings endeavor to procure as much as they can; but when it is a question of the goods of eternal life, they say, "It is enough if we get a little corner in Heaven!"' 

Saints have a keen desire for the things of heaven.   The rest of us, foolish creatures that we are, tend to fix our desire on less worthy things.

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