John Vianney (1786-1859), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Struggle (with Sin)
We are gluttonous, my children, when we take food in excess, more than is required for the support of our poor body; when we drink beyond what is necessary, so as even to lose our senses and our reason. . . . Oh, how shameful is this vice! How it degrades us! See, it puts us below the brutes: the animals never drink more than to satisfy their thirst: they content themselves with eating enough; and we, when we have satisfied our appetite, when our body can bear no more, we still have recourse to all sorts of little delicacies; we take wine and liquors to repletion! Is it not pitiful?
–Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
John Vianney (1786-1859), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Struggle (with Sin)
Shall we all be saved? Shall we go to Heaven? Alas, my children, we do not know at all! But I tremble when I see so many souls lost these days. See, they fall into Hell as leaves fall from the trees at the approach of winter.
–Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Struggle (with Sin)
There is no error so fatal in its consequences as the loss of eternal salvation. Other errors may be repaired; if a person lose a situation, he may perhaps in time regain it; if he lose his goods, he may replace them, but if he lose his soul, he has no remedy nor hope of redemption. He can die but once; and if that once his soul be lost, it must be lost forever, and no power can save it for all eternity.
–Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Struggle (with Sin)
It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.
–Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life), Struggle (with Sin), Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Confession, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Struggle (with Sin)
The usual snare with which the devil catches the young is to fill them with shame when they are about to confess their sins. When he pushes them to commit sins, he removes all shame, as if there were nothing wrong with it, but when they are going to confession, he returns that shame magnified and tries to convince them that the priest will be shocked by their sins and will no longer think well of them. Thus the devil tries to drive souls to the brink of eternal damnation. Oh, how many lads does Satan steal from God – sometimes forever – by this trick.
–Saint John Bosco (1815-1888)
