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Thought this was good from Michael Voris (there's more at the link):

So many Catholics are preconditioned by the culture to approach the Throne of God as though He were a drinking fountain—something refreshing at your disposal and on your terms.

There has entered into the spiritual life of many Catholics the heresy of the prosperity gospel of various protestant cults. God gives us what we need to be saved. To those He is very intimate with, He grants special favors out of His overwhelming love for them— and He does love some people more than He loves others because His love is received by them in greater measure.

They have a greater capacity to receive and return His love, so they experience more of His love. But what has prepared them for this love, what has readied them to have a greater capacity, is the Cross, the struggle, life in the spiritual desert.

They have become almost totally dependent on Him for everything, and therefore He draws them to Himself more closely and grants them what they desire because what they desire is Him and His will.

This depth of spirituality is not possible without the Cross and without a rejection of the childish need for consolations and superficial emotionalism. Sometimes, for many, the weight of the Cross, the lack of consolation is so burdensome that the person is on the verge of giving up.

This is where the greatest strides are made—at that precise moment. Like an athlete lifting weights does not realize the full gain until the last agonizing lift, or the runner doesn’t achieve the runner’s high until the body has been pushed to its maximum endurance, so the soul does not grow until the moment of pain.

Transcript only:
http://www.churchmilitant.tv/scripts/vort-2014-09-26.pdf