Ready for death…
Keep ready! One who is not ready for a good death today runs the risk of dying a bad one.
–Saint John Bosco (1815-1888)
When death is near…
Things look very different when death is near.
— Saint John Bosco (1815-1888)
When reckoning comes…
Since, when the hour of reckoning comes, you will be sorry for not having used this time in the service of God, why do you not arrange and use it now as you would wish to have done were you dying?
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
The least of all…
Preserve a habitual remembrance of eternal life, recalling that those who hold themselves the lowest and poorest and least of all will enjoy the highest dominion and glory in God.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
Woe to us who…
What answer shall we give to our immortal King, Christ our God, Who shall come again in the glory of His Father to judge both the quick and the dead, to declare the secret thoughts of all hearts, and receive from us our answer for every word and deed. O, woe, woe, woe to us who bear the name of Christ, but have none of the spirit of Christ in us; who bear the name of Christ, but do not follow the teaching of the Gospel! Woe to us who ‘neglect so great salvation’! Woe to us who love the present fleeting, deceptive life, and neglect the inheritance of the life that follows after the death of our corruptible body beyond this carnal veil!
–Saint John of Kronstadt (1829-1908)
God promised pardon, not tomorrow…
If we knew at what time we were to depart from this world, we would be able to select a season for pleasure and another for repentance. But God, who has promised pardon to every repentant sinner, has not promised us tomorrow.
–Saint Gregory the Great (c. 540-604)
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