It is preferable to have the whole world against thee, than Jesus offended with thee. -Thomas á Kempis

God, I pray you to let me know my self. -St. Augustine

Pope Benedict XV How insistently Jerome urges on priests assiduous reading of the Bible if they would worthily teach and preach! Their words will have neither value nor weight nor any power to touch men’s souls save in proportion as they are “informed” by Holy Scripture: “Let a priest’s speech be seasoned with the Bible,” for “the Scriptures are a trumpet that stirs us with a mighty voice and penetrates to the soul of them that believe,” and “nothing so strikes home as an example taken from the Bible.”

Failed ratio lmao

Catholicism is metal.

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori: Leave Calvin aside, and hear what the Council of Trent teaches

You have your ICE card, right anon?

The heavens shew forth the glory of God, and the firmament declareth the work of his hands.

“When last I looked, Santa Claus, not mom and dad, checked the naughty and nice list.”

God wills us to be saved; but for our greater good, he wills us to be saved as conquerors. While, therefore, we remain here, we have to live in a continual warfare; and if we should be saved, we have to fight and conquer. -St. Alphonsus

God wills all men to be saved, but not so as to destroy their free will. -St. Augustine

God wills to be called upon, he wills to be forced, he wills to be conquered by importunity. . . . Happy violence by which God is not offended, but appeased! -St. Gregory

You are being nice, right anon?

“‘Lead us not into temptation’ often means, among other things, ‘Deny me those gratifying invitations, those highly interesting contacts, that participation in the brilliant movements of our age, which I so often, at such risk, desire.’” - C.S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms

Short is the pain; eternal the glory. -St. Augustine

Sheen is simply one of the best to ever do it.

Soon

“In those simple times there was a great wonder and mystery in life. Man walked in fear and solemnity, with Heaven very close above his head, and Hell below his very feet. God’s visible hand was everywhere, in the rainbow and the comet, in the thunder and the wind. The Devil, too, raged openly upon the earth; he skulked behind the hedgerows in the gloaming; he laughed loudly in the night-time; he clawed the dying sinner, pounced on the unbaptized babe, and twisted the limbs of the epileptic.”

The life of man upon earth is a warfare.

Btw, this is St. Martin Catholic Church, the world's smallest church w/active worship, located in Warrenton, Texas.