Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire!

(Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) In whatever state a soul may be, it ought to pray.  A soul which is pure and beautiful must pray, or else it will lose its beauty; a soul which is striving after this purity must pray, or else it will never attain it; a soul which is newly converted must pray, or else it will fall again; a sinful soul, plunged in sins, must pray so that it might rise again. There is no soul which is not bound to pray, for every single grace comes to the soul through prayer.   St. Maria Faustina Kowalska

(Image source: Wikimedia Commons) At the heart of all temptations is the act of pushing God aside because we perceive him as secondary, if not actually superfluous and annoying, in comparison with all the apparently far more urgent matters that fill our lives. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

(Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) There is no sin that God refuses to forgive, if we are sorry.   There is no limit to the amount of times, we can confess the same sin.   While we may become discouraged and want to give up on ourselves, God never gives up on us Mary Ann Budnik

(Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) What God expects of us, above all else, is a serious application to conquering our passions…[in order to obtain Christian perfection] you must resolve on a perpetual war with yourself…begin by providing yourself with four weapons, without which it is impossible to gain the victory in this spiritual combat.  These four things are: distrust of one's self; confidence in God; proper use of the faculties of body and mind; and the duty of prayer. Dom Lorenzo Scupoli