"You're Not Wrong Walter"
The importance of saints (Blog Post)
"One of the reasons we are given the Saints is so that each of them, in his own way, may strike us, through the force of his own personality, with the reality and truth of Christ." Jonathan Robinson, In No Strange Land: The Embodied Mysticism of Saint Philip Neri
Saints are a reality check, like friends offer a reality check. "Is it me, or are people driving like f'ing morons these days?" Your friend says, "It's not you. We got aging babyboomers, illegals who drive in a second language, arrogants who can't begin to fathom how a cell phone affects their driving, oversized SUVs designed to assure that only the other guy dies, and now stoners."
It's helpful to know you're not wrong to blare the klaxon 15 times at that dolt with his cell phone to his ear. You might be an asshole, Lebowski would say, but you're not wrong.
The saints move past the klaxon. They show you how not to be Walter, even though they, too, were often tempted to be Walter.