Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire!

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) The more a soul has sorrow for its sins, the more it has peace, because confidence increases when repentance deepens.   The more pain he feels for having displeased God, the more the soul will hope that God will grant mercy and therein rests its joy.   The reason the number of saints is so small in the world today is that there are very few persons who have the courage to face up to their transgressions of God's law or are sufficiently confident to continue it long enough for it to prove effective.   The foundation of Christian perfection is humility, and humility can be acquired only by a deep knowledge of one's miseries, that is to say, of one's sins at their roots. Father Charles Hugo Doyle 

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) "Know that the salvation, the perfection of My servants stands on this one thing, that they do My will alone, ever striving to fulfill it in all things; that they attend to Me, and serve Me every moment of their lives.  The more diligently they apply themselves to this, the nearer they approach perfection…" Jesus to St. Catherine of Siena

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) A person who has a [spiritual] director by whom he allows himself to be guided, whom he obeys in all his actions, great and small, will more easily and quickly arrive at perfection then he ever could by himself, even were he gifted with an extraordinary degree of intelligence and supplied with books explaining the nature of all virtues and the means of acquiring them.  St. Vincent Ferrer