But God is supremely loved not for my sake, that is, for the sake of my beatitude, but for God's sake. By grace I can begin to love something more than my own happiness. The priorities of the saint are very different from those of the world. They are in fact entirely reversed. Outside of the opportunity to channel the Lord's mercy, everything else within an ordinary day is either insignificant or at best only secondary.
People generally take themselves and their lives very seriously.
But the saint does take Catholic teaching in its integrity, prayer and the Eucharist and ordinary, insignificant human persons very seriously. For the saint loves God more than he loves his own happiness, and it is for this reason that he loves others more than he loves his own happiness. The religious orders that thrive today are those that have not lost sight of their end, whereas those that are dying have. Quoted in Bernard Basset . Born For Friendship .