Big picture:
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried." GKC

A picking from the big picture:
"One could assume that many ordinary Catholics dispensed with the teachings on sex and marriage during the turbulent 1960s for the simple reason that these teachings are difficult to live -- that they require, for some of us, a degree of self-control and selflessness that is beyond ordinary means." Erika Bachiochi