Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire!

 

 

 

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons )   No sincere prayer is left unanswered.   If He does not always give me what I want, it is because that would not be for my spiritual welfare, but in such a case, He gives me something that is just as good or something better.  Father Winfrid Herbst, S.D.S.

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons )     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.   [Just one of 1200 soul stirring and faith building quotations you will find in Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire! ]

  (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) "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.    [Just one of 1200 soul-stirring quotations for you to ponder Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire! ]

(Photo©Michael Seagriff) Why must there be a general judgment since each one is judged individually at the moment of death? There are five reasons: that in a solemn fashion an end may be put to the human race; that the result of the particular judgment of each one may be made known to all men; that men as members of human society may be publicly judged, showing their influence for good or evil, since both good and evil spread on and until the  end of time; that the wisdom and justice of God may be seen and acknowledged by all men and the evil judgments of the world corrected; and that solemn and public submission of all creatures endowed with reason may be given to God.   Father Winfrid Herbst, S.D.S.