Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire!

  (Photo by Shalone Cason on Unsplash ) I shall not be overanxious about my confession…I will confess entirely, telling all my sins and the number as best I can and the circumstances that change their nature, no matter how shameful they may be…All that I need do is quietly make an earnest effort to do my best…Sorrow is really the most important thing in confession…Sorrow is an act of the mind and will.   It is not a matter of feeling…if I have no genuine will to hate sin and avoid it, I have no true sorrow…A very good proof of true contrition is change of conduct.   Father Winfrid Herbst, S.D.S.  

[The quotations appearing on this blog each week are excerpted from my book,  Forgotten Truths to Set Faith Afire! - Word to Challenge Inspire, and Instruct .] (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons )  One of the best ways of overcoming temptations against any virtue is to say: God is more beautiful, more desirable than this – I prefer God!     Father Winfrid Herbst, S.D.S

Many people, I am sure, would die of shame if all of a sudden all their hidden sins were made known to those around them.  They could not stand such shame and live.  Yet God sees them always.   Father Winfrid Herbst, S.D.S. 

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) It would be wise for me to always remember that I must die and that I ought always to be ready.   I should be able to go to bed at night and say: This night I may die; and if I die I am going to heaven…Would I do this or that if I knew I were to die this minute?...Live so death will never find me unprepared. I must always be ready.  (Father Winfrid Herbst, S.D.S. from  The Way to God )

I must overcome human respect if I wish to persevere in goodness. Never will I seek to placate men when I know that thereby I displease God. (Father Winfrid Herbst, SDS from The Way To God )

(Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) "I will think more of heaven then of hell for the simple reason that I am not going to hell.  I am going to heaven; and I am going to live so there can be no doubt about it." (Father Winfrid Herbst, S.D.S. – The Way To God) {Do yourself a spiritual favor and get a CD-ROM copy of Father Herbst's Eucharistic Whisperings}