Matters of conscience…
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
–Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
Two serious evils…
In order that what we have said may be the more clearly and fully understood, it will be well to set down here and state how these desires are the cause of two serious evils in the soul: the one is that they deprive it of the Spirit of God, and the other is that the soul wherein they dwell is wearied, tormented, darkened, defiled and weakened.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
Sinners who deny…
The deaf who deny they are deaf will never hear; the sinners who deny there is sin deny thereby the remedy of sin, and thus cut themselves off forever from Him Who came to redeem.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
When we are tempted…
We should not despair, therefore, when we are tempted, but pray to God the more fervently that He may see fit to help us, for according to the word of Paul, He will make issue with temptation that we may be able to bear it. Let us humble our souls under the hand of God in every trial and temptation for He will save and exalt the humble in spirit.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Our heart is made…
Our heart is made for God, and God constantly entices it and never ceases to cast before it the allurements of divine love. Yet five things impede the operation of this holy attraction:
- sin, which removes us from God;
- affection for riches;
- sensual pleasures;
- pride and vanity;
- self-love, together with the multitude of disordered passions it brings forth, which are like a heavy load wearing it down.sin, pride, greed, self-love
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Not knowing the Scriptures…
This is the cause of all evils, the not knowing the Scriptures. We go into battle without arms, and how are we to come off safe?
–Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
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