
“(Many men) have a number of good qualities, and are in a certain sense and up to certain point religious; but they do not watch. Their notion of religion is briefly this: loving God indeed, but loving this world too; not only doing their duty, but finding their chief and highest good , in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call them, resting in it, taking it as their portion. They serve God, and they seek Him; but they look on the present world as if it were eternal.” St. Cardinal Newman