"Through baptism a Christian receives new life in Christ, becomes lifted up into a supernatural life, and acquires the wonderful hope of being seated on a heavenly throne in glory. What dignity! The Christian vocation involves a continual aspiration to the homeland of the blessed. The Christian vocation requires us, I tell you, not to set our hearts on the things of this vile world. All the concern and effort of a good Christian who is living out this vocation is focused on obtaining eternal benefits. The Christian needs to judge things here below by esteeming and valuing only those things that are helpful in obtaining eternal benefits and dismissing all the things that are not helpful in reaching that goal."

-St. Pio of Pietrelcina