When Hell Is Never Discussed, Countless Souls Are Lost

 

 

 

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I am sure many lost souls in hell right now would cry out to preachers and writers if they could: Oh, why did you not tell us more about the horrors of hell? Why did you not strike such fear into our hearts by your realistic description of hell that we would have made greater efforts to avoid it?...Why did you spare our feelings in a matter of such eternal moment? Oh, why did you not make hell a thousand times hotter than you did, then perhaps we would not be here today? 

Father Winfrid Herbst, S.D.S. 

 

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Eternity Is Nothing To Trivalize

 

 

 

"While many prefer to avoid these ultimate questions and some are tempted to think of salvation as a right and as a foregone conclusion, the Church must continue to remind people of the awesome reality of human freedom, the price of salvation (cf. 1Cor. 7: 23) and the riches of divine mercy (cf. Eph. 2: 4). In doing so the Church is defending the worth and dignity of every individual against all efforts to trivialize human existence."

  St. John Paul II (Pope) 

 

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Mary Our Mother, Our Life, Our Sweetness and Our Hope!

Mary is never invoked in vain…Mary is the Queen of Martyrs because next to Jesus she suffered more than anyone else ever suffered. (Mary did not suffer physically. Hers were sufferings of the soul. Her heart was pierced with the sword of sorrow).  But why did she have to suffer at all? It is because God sends sufferings to those whom He loves, and the more He loves them, the greater the sufferings He sends them…I will remember all of this then when the Lord gives me some little splinter of the cross to carry.  I will not so easily complain and be unhappy.

Father Winfrid Herbst, S.D.S.

Responding To Our Imperfections

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We must not fret over our own imperfections. Although reason requires that we must be displeased and sorry whenever we commit a fault, we must refrain from bitter, gloomy, spiteful and emotional displeasure. Many people are greatly at fault in this way. When overcome by anger they become angry at being angry, disturbed at being disturbed, and vexed at being vexed. By such means they keep their hearts drenched and steeped in passion…We must be sorry for our faults, but in a calm, settled firm way.

St. Francis de Sales 

 

[This is just one of 1200 thought-provoking and faith-building quotations you will find in Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire! - Words to Challenge, Inspire and Instruct]