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"The selfishness that is within us, however, is so contrary to God, that God cannot induce us to do His will except by a clever strategy: promising us greater things than what the world can give--even in this life--and promising a kind of consolation that the world does not know. God does this, I think, because He knows how much we are attached to pleasure. He knows that we are the kind who will not leave our one little toy unless we are offered four!"  ~Catherine of Genoa