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St. Basil the Great (360): “Much time had I spent in vanity, and had wasted nearly all my youth acquiring the sort of wisdom made foolish by God. Then once, like a man roused from deep sleep, I turned my eyes to the marvelous light of the truth of the Gospel, and I perceived the uselessness of the ‘wisdom… of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away’ (1 Cor. 2:6). I wept many tears over my miserable life and I prayed that I might receive guidance to admit me to the doctrines of the true religion.”
“Lord, thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation. Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world were formed, from eternity and to eternity thou art God.” (Psalm 89:1-2)
St. Alphonsus (c. 1755): “St. Augustine says that whoever does not shun dangerous occasions will soon fall into a precipice… The example of the unhappy Solomon should make us all tremble. At first he was most dear to God, and even inspired of the Holy Ghost, but by the love of strange women he was in his old age led into idolatry. Nor should his fall be a subject of wonder; for, as St. Cyprian says, to stand in the midst of flames and not to burn is impossible.”
St. Justin the Martyr (155): “… they are led by us to a place where there is water; and there they are reborn in the same kind of rebirth in which we ourselves were reborn… in the name of God… they receive the washing of water. For Christ said, ‘Unless you be reborn, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.’ The reason for doing this we have learned from the apostles.”
Venerable Bede relates the experiences of the man Trithhelmus, who saw Hell: “As we penetrated deeper and deeper into this obscurity, I perceived in the midst of the darkness an abyss of immense extent filled with smoke and a lurid glare, the sight of which caused my hair to stand on end with terror. From this abyss proceeded piteous wailing, which sounded as if a number of men and women were being put to cruel torture and death.” (The Four Last Things, p. 135)
Psalm 139:4- “Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it completely.”
Revelation 3:20- “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.”
Pope Leo XIII (1896): “There is no duty which Christ and His Apostles more emphatically urged by both precept and example than that of prayer and supplication to the Almighty. The Fathers and Doctors in subsequent times have taught that this is a matter of such grave necessity, that if men neglect it they hope in vain for eternal salvation. Everyone who prays finds the door open… ask, seek, knock (Mt. 7:7).” (Fidentem piumque animum #2)
“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.” (Luke 16:18)
Saint Bede the Venerable (c. 720): “Just as all within the Ark were saved and all outside of it were carried away when the flood came, so when all who are pre-ordained to eternal life have entered the Church, the end of the world will come and all will perish who are found outside.” (Hexaemeron)
St. Francis Xavier (1548): “Let your conversation with the Portuguese be always about sacred things, such as relate to the salvation of souls and to advancement in virtue. Speak to them in private as well as in public about Death, Judgment, the punishments of Hell and of Purgatory, urging them to frequent the sacraments of Penance and Communion, and to keep the Ten Commandments of God’s law…”
Pope Pius XI (1937): “Nothing but ignorance and pride could blind one to the treasures hoarded in the Old Testament.” (Mit brennender sorge #15)
St. Peter Canisius (16th century): “It is a shocking thing that Christians are not marvelously ashamed, who pollute themselves with filthy lust in the sight of God and His angels, whereas they have consecrated in Baptism their bodies and members as pure temples to the Holy Ghost, and to Christ our Lord.”
“Remember this and stand firm, recall it to mind, you transgressors, remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done…” (Isaiah 46:8-10)
Fr. Martin Von Cochem (1900): “What has hitherto been said concerning the Last Judgment is indeed most awful, but that which is now to come is yet more so: we are about to speak of the sentence pronounced upon the wicked and how they will be cast down into hell. This is so terrible that nothing in all eternity can be found equal to it in horror.” (The Four Last Things, p. 96)
St. Robert Bellarmine: “… our adversaries… are destitute of arguments, and rich in calumnies…” (De Iustificatione, Book I, Chap. 3.)
St. Ambrose (390): “True repentance is to cease to sin.”
Pope Pius XI (1931): “She is the Mother of God; therefore whatever privilege (in the order of sanctifying grace) has been granted to anyone of the saints, she obtains it more than all. Why, therefore, do the Reformers and not a few non-Catholics bitterly condemn our piety towards the Virgin Mother of God, as though we were withdrawing the worship due to God alone? Do they not know, or do they not attentively consider that nothing can be more pleasing to Jesus Christ… than that we should venerate her as she deserves…” (Lux Veritatis # 42)
“When, to induce St. Clement, Bishop of Ancyra, to deny Jesus Christ, the Emperor Diocletian offered him silver, gold, and precious stones, the saint heaved a deep sigh of sorrow at seeing his God compared with dross.” (St. Alphonsus)
St. Ignatius of Antioch (106): “But look at the men who have these perverted notions about the grace of Jesus Christ which has come down to us, and see how contrary to the mind of God they are… They even abstain from the Eucharist and from the public prayers, because they will not admit that the Eucharist is the self-same body of our Savior Jesus Christ which flesh suffered for our sins, and which the Father of His goodness raised up again.” (Epistle to the Smyrnaeans)
St. Francis Xavier (1543): “... I could not but grieve intensely at the thought of the devils being worshipped instead of God by these blind heathen, and I asked them to listen to me in turn. Then I, in a loud voice, repeated the Apostles’ Creed and the Ten Commandments. After this I gave in their own language a short explanation, and told them what Paradise is, and what Hell is, and also who they are who go to Heaven to join the company of the blessed, and who are to be sent to the eternal punishments of Hell. Upon hearing these things they all rose up and vied with one another in embracing me, and in confessing that the God of the Christians is the true God, as His laws are so agreeable to reason.”
Pope Pius XI (1937): “Since Christ… finished the task of Redemption, and by breaking up the reign of sin merited for us the grace of being the children of God, since that day no other name under heaven has been given to men, whereby we must be saved (Acts 4:12).” (Mit brennender sorge #17)
“Augustine says that the woman [Eve] could not have believed the words of the serpent, had she not already acquiesced in the love of her own power, and in a presumption of self-conceit.” (St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Pt. I, Q. 94, A. 4, Reply to Obj. 1)
St. Augustine (415): “Anyone who would say that infants who pass this life without participation in the Sacrament [of Baptism] shall be made alive in Christ truly goes counter to the preaching of the Apostle and condemns the whole Church…”
St. Gregory Nazianzen: “It is better to lose something honorably than to possess it dishonestly. The Trinity knows this, as does my outspoken preaching (which also caused the wicked to hate me)…”
On the incredible transformation in Mexico following the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe: “The nine million baptisms between the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the death of Juan Diego and Bishop Zumarraga in 1548 created large Christian communities throughout most of central Mexico… The churches were decorated by Indian artists with frescoes and sculptures – a universe removed from the horrors they had painted and carved in the days of the Hummingbird Wizard [the satanic god of the Aztecs].” (Carroll, A History of Christendom, Vol. 4, p. 625)
Mark 4:16-17: “… these are the ones sown on rocky ground… who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy. And they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away.”
St. Aphraates (336): “But still, it is for us a certainty that our Lord Jesus is God, the Son of God; and the King, the Son of the King; Light from Light; Creator, and Counsellor, and Guide, and the Way, and the Savior, and the Shepherd, and the Gatherer, and the Gate, and the Pearl, and the Lamp.”
“The prophet Daniel once saw an angel, and he was so terror-struck at his appearance, that he fell to the ground like one dead. If such an effect was produced on him by the sight of a single angel, whose errand was one of comfort and consolation, what will become of us, when so many hundreds of thousands of heavenly princes draw nigh to us [on Judgment Day] with wrathful countenances? St. Ephrem, speaking of this says: ‘The angels will stand there with a menacing demeanor, their eyes flashing with the sacred fire of just indignation, roused by the iniquities of mankind.’” (Fr. Martin von Cochem, The Four Last Things, p. 66.)
2 Peter 3:10- “But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.”
Fr. Martin Von Cochem (1900): “It has now been made clear that the damned will one day be cast, body and soul, into the huge and awful furnace of hell, into the immense lake of fire, where they will be surrounded by flames. There will be fire below them, fire above them, fire round about them. Every breath will be the scorching breath of a furnace. These infernal flames will penetrate every portion of the body, so that there will be no part or member, within or without, that is not steeped in fire.” (The Four Last Things., p. 120)
Pope Pelagius II (585): “If anyone, however, either suggests or believes or presumes to teach contrary to this faith, let him know that he is condemned and also anathematized according to the opinion of the same Fathers.” (Quod ad dilectionem, Denz. 246)
St. Augustine: “Sin is a will to retain or obtain that which Justice prohibits, and from which it is in man’s power to abstain.”
Pope St. Gregory the Great (c. 590): “Forgiveness of sin is bestowed on us only by the baptism of Christ.”
St. John Chrysostom (c. 380): “Prayer is the source, the root, and the mother of innumerable good things. The power of prayer extinguishes the strength of fire, restrains the raging of lions, settles wars and fights, endures storms, escapes devils, opens the doors of heaven, breaks the bonds of death, casts out diseases, repels injuries, and strengthens shattered cities.” (Hom. 15.)
St. Augustine (c. 413): “Therefore, because you have been made members of Christ I must warn you; for I fear dangers for you... For if you wish to imitate the multitude, you shall not then be among the few who shall enter in by the narrow way.”
St. Gregory Nazianzen: “Many are the paths deviating from the straight and established road, all of which lead to the depths of destruction.”
Council of Ephesus, AD 431: “No one who dared to oppose his own Creator has escaped divine retribution, but immediately, in so far as human eyes could see, he was punished in part, since the more complete punishment due to him is reserved for the time of Judgment.”
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