Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire!

 

        ( Image Source ) Of all people to choose from, He singled out the chief of the tax collectors.   Who can lose hope for themselves when even such a man attained salvation?  St. Ambrose  (One of 1200 challenging quotations you will find in Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire! - Words to Challenge, Inspire and Instruct ).  

The Everlasting God has in His wisdom foreseen from eternity the cross that He now presents to you as a gift from His innermost heart. This cross He now sends you is considered with His all-knowing eyes, understood with His divine mind, tested with His wise justice, warmed with loving arms and weighed with His own hands, to see that it be not one inch too large and not one ounce too heavy for you. He has blessed it with His Holy Name, anointed it with His grace, perfumed it with His consolation, taken one last look at you and your courage, and then sent it to you from heaven, a special greeting from God to you, an alms of the all-merciful love of God.  Prayer of St. Francis de Sales  

(Photo by icon0.com from Pexels ) In order to desire to be saved, we must know we are lost.  Madeleine Delbrel, Servant of God

(Photo©Michael Seagriff) "What St. Paul taught was all the truths and precepts of Christ, even the most demanding ones, without silencing or watering down any.   He spoke of humility, of self-denial, of chastity, of detachment from earthly goods, of obedience…And he did not fear to stress that one had to choose between serving God and serving Baal, because it is not possible to serve the two together. He taught that after death all had to undergo a woeful judgment; that no one can bargain with God; that one can only expect eternal life if one has kept God’s laws; that seeking pleasures by breaking these laws one can only expect eternal damnation…Never did the Preacher of truth think he had to omit these things because   they might seem harsh to his listeners, especially in view of the corruption of the times…Since when does a doctor give useless medicine to his patients, being afraid to prescribe useful ones?" Pope Leo XIII