Two things will get you in trouble or get you killed: strong Faith and clarity in thinking on life issues.
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There Is A Price We Must Pay
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There are some who wish to be
humble, but without being despised, who wish to be happy with their lot, but
without being needy, who wish to be chaste, without mortifying the body, to be
patient without suffering. They want
both to acquire virtues and to avoid the sacrifices those virtues involve; they
are like soldiers who flee the battlefield and try to win the war from the
comfort of the city. - St. Gregory the Great
It's Murder!
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Slander is a form of murder. We have three kinds of life: spiritual, which
consists in God's grace, corporeal, which depends on the body and soul, and
social, which consists in our good name.
Sin deprives the first kind of life, death takes away the second, and
slander the third.
By a single stroke of
his tongue the slanderer usually commits three murders. He kills his own soul and the soul of anyone
who hears him by an act of spiritual homicide and takes away the social life of
the man he slanders.
St. Frances de Sales
And Then There Is Purgatory
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An infinite
number of souls who suffer in Purgatory and for whom the Church prays daily
after consecration did not need to go there.
If we think in human terms, God does not wish for us to need
Purgatory. God does not put us here on
earth, where we are tested and are suffering after the fall, only to let us
suffer again – and much worse – in Purgatory.
Everyone receives enough graces in order to go straight to God after
passing the trials on earth. However,
Purgatory is an emergency entry to Heaven for those who have wasted their time.
St. Therese of Lisieux
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