Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire!

(Image source: Wikimedia Commons) The only difference between a sinner and a saint is found in their attitude toward their sins – the one persisting in them; the other weeping bitterly. Venerable Fulton J. Sheen 

(Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) More than the sin itself what displeases and offends God is the sinner not feeling any sorrow for his sins.  St. John Chrysostom 

(Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) “Spiritual combat” is another element of life which needs to be taught anew and proposed once more to all Christians today. It is a secret and interior art, an invisible struggle in which (we) engage every day against the temptations, the evil suggestions that the demon tries to plant in (our) hearts. Saint John Paul II (Pope) 

(Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) The devil does a great deal to incapacitate us when he sees a little fear. St. Teresa of Avila

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) We must fly from all that can draw us away from God; we must keep ourselves in a silence both exterior and interior, that we may hear the voice of God; and we must calm all the agitations and anxieties of our mind and heart, that they may be fixed on God alone.  Father John Nicholas Grou, S.J.

(Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) Not only must we have a prayer life, before we can go out and preach, but our preaching, our witnessing to Christ, must flow from our life in God through contemplation.  Father William Hinnebusch, O.P. 

Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) We should all realize that no matter where or how a man dies, if he is in the state of mortal sin and does not repent, when he could have done so and did not, the Devil tears his soul from his body with such anguish and distress that only a person who has experienced it can appreciate it.  St. Francis of Assisi