Showing posts with label Perdition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Perdition. Show all posts

Friday, July 29, 2016

QUOTATION: Final Impenitence

Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
A very probable position, upheld by many theologians, is that God will not let die in sin those who have committed only one mortal sin, especially if there is a question of a sin of frailty. Final impenitence would thus be restricted to inveterate sinners. 

 --Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Life Everlasting

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

QUOTATION: Damnation

St. Faustina Kowalska
Only the soul who wants it will be damned, for God condemns no one.

--St. Faustina

Sunday, May 12, 2013

QUOTATION: Justice in the Next Life

St. Robert Bellarmine
We shall also see with feelings of pleasure, the crimes and torments of the damned, in which the sanctity of the good, and the justice of God will wonderfully shine forth; for then the just will wash their hands in the blood of the wicked, as the prophet saith. And what doth "washing their hands in the blood of the wicked" signify, but that the good works of the blessed will shine more brightly, in comparison with the works of the wicked? The virginity of some will be more resplendent, when compared with the adulteries of others: and the fasts and alms-deeds of many, when compared with the gluttony and revellings of others. It will then be said: this young man was beautiful, and yet he observed perpetual chastity: this other youth was beautiful also, but not content with his own wife, he often committed adulteries and sacrileges. This man was rich and of noble extraction, and yet he fasted and prayed often, and gave abundant alms: another was equally rich and of noble extraction, but being addicted to gluttony and drunkenness, he spent his money in pleasures, so that he had nothing to give to the poor. Hence it will be, that the joy of the Just will be increased, by knowing the crimes of the wicked. At the same time, their joy will also be great, from the contemplation of the justice which will be so conspicuous, in the rewards of the blessed and the punishment of the wicked.

--St. Robert Bellarmine, The Eternal Happiness of the Saints

Friday, September 7, 2012

QUOTATION: Perdition

The devil does not bring sinners to hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own sins. Before we fall into sin, the enemy labours to blind us, that we may not see the evil we do and the ruin we bring upon ourselves by offending God. After we commit sin, he seeks to make us dumb, that, through shame, we may conceal our guilt in confession.

--St. Alphonsus Liguori

Thursday, August 23, 2012

QUOTATION: Loss of Souls

A multitude of souls fall into the depths of Hell, and it is of the faith that all who die in mortal sin are condemned for ever and ever. According to statistics, approximately 80,000 persons die every day. How many of these will die in mortal sin, and how many will be condemned! For, as their lives have been, so also will be their end.

--St. Anthony Mary Claret

Monday, August 13, 2012

QUOTATION: Mortal Sin

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

Monday, July 9, 2012

QUOTATION: Lukewarm Souls

The reason why the lukewarm run so great a risk of being lost is because tepidity conceals from the soul the immense evil which it causes.

--St. Alphonsus Liguori

Saturday, August 13, 2011

QUOTATION: God's Desire for Our Salvation

God is more desirous of our salvation than the devil is for our perdition.

--St. Alphonsus Liguori

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

QUOTATION: The unborn Christ

Jesus Christ revealed to Venerable Agatha of the Cross that while He was in His Mother’s womb, that which afflicted Him more than any other sorrows was the hardness of the hearts of [those] who would, after His Redemption, despise the graces which He came into the world to dispense.

--St. Alphonsus Liguori