Jessie Schamanek’s Reviews > The Heart of Perfection: How the Saints Taught Me to Trade My Dream of Perfect for God's > Status Update

Powerful. “It’s not an exclusively Catholic problem. Highly committed Christian’s of any stripe are prone to smugness. We believe we’ve found the key to eternal life—or the fullness of the faith, as Catholics say—and we forget that’s a reason for gratitude, not gloating…It can be tempting to allow your fatigue and resentment to scab over into a self-protective posture of superiority and scorn…”