[Mr Rogers]

The point of that sentence was clearly, ‘Look at how good the Catholic Church is - we have higher standards!’

Kind of pointless to have standards that are not applied. And kind of wrong to look down your nose at other denominations, claiming their standards are lower, if your adherents don’t meet the ones you set for yourselves.

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

Man made rules rather than divine commandments, it is legalistic and smacks of pharisee.

[bdeaner]

Kind of pointless to have standards that are not applied. And kind of wrong to look down your nose at other denominations, claiming their standards are lower, if your adherents don’t meet the ones you set for yourselves.

No one is personally capable of sanctification, but God is perfect and we should not bring morality down to our human level when what we ultimately are destined for is God's standards. No human being can live up to God's moral standards, which are perfect standards -- we cannot on our own "work" our way to heaven, as St. Paul taught us in his letters to the Romans and to the Galatians. That is why we have the Sacraments, such as Confession, so that the grace of the Lord can work within us to do what we are incapable of doing on our own. Only grace makes sanctification possible.