"We tend to concentrate on ourselves, we tend to think of what we can or cannot do, and we forget about God and his will and his providence.” —Walter J. Ciszek SJ

No Need To Contemplate Hell?

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I may think of hell as threefold: hell is torment of fire and other pains of sense in the company of demons and the damned; hell is the loss of God which is the greatest pain of hell; and hell is despair that will never end…Through pious meditation I must descend into hell while I live that I may not have to descend into it when I die.

Father Winfrid Herbst, S.D.S. 

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