Marriage and family life give us constant opportunities to deny ourselves for the sake of others. And yet self-denial is not a mask for self-contempt, but the necessary means for achieving self-mastery; for self-mastery makes possible our self-giving and self-fulfillment. Sin is not wanting too much, but settling for too little. Its settling for self-gratification rather than self-fulfillment. - From S. Hahn, First Comes Love (pp. 128-29) amazon/First-Comes-Love-Finding-Trinity/dp/0385496621/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1385872493&sr=8-1&keywords=first+comes+love+scott+hahn
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