Catholic Wisdom

"Saint Teresa [of Avila] was granted a vision of Heaven and ever after, as she tells us herself, everything on Earth seemed but muck and dirt to her. But we (alas!), though we have the same knowledge by faith, creep along the ground and do not know how to rise above it."

--Saint Jean-Marie Vianney, Sermon for the last day of the year, in Life of the Blessed Curé d'Ars, by the Reverend Alfred Monnin.