'Saints' Quotes - Holy quotations for purification of the soul' - 'Fewness' - One Hundred and One Texts – pp. 12-13; part
'It is granted to few to recognize the true Church amid the darkness of so many schisms and heresies, and to fewer still so to love the truth which they have seen as to fly to its embrace.'St. Robert Bellarmine, Doctor of the Church
'Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, Nor the effeminate, nor liers with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners, shall possess the kingdom of God.'
1 Corinthians 6:9-10
'Yes, indeed, many will be damned; few will be saved.'
St. Benedict Joseph Labre
'The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong is their way, gross their error, and assured their ruin who, after the testimony of so many thousands of saints, will not learn where to settle their footing.'
St. Robert Southwell
'I fear that Last Day, that day of tribulation and anguish, of calamity and misery, of mist and darkness, that Day on which, if the just have reason to fear, how much more should I, an impious, wretched, and ungrateful sinner!'
Bl. Sebastian Valfre
'The greater number of men still say to God: Lord we will not serve Thee; we would rather be slaves of the devil, and condemned to Hell, than be Thy servants. Alas! The greatest number, my Jesus - we may say nearly all - not only do not love Thee, but offend Thee and despise Thee. How many countries there are in which there are scarcely any Catholics, and all the rest either infidels or heretics! And all of them are certainly on the way to being lost.'
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Doctor of the Church
'The number of the damned is incalculable.'
St. Veronica Giuliani
'Many religious go strait to Hell because they do not keep their vows!'
St. Vincent Ferrer
'Everyone desires to be saved but the greater part is lost.'
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Doctor of the Church
'Ah! A great many persons live constantly in the state of damnation!'
St. Vincent de Paul
'Those who are saved are in the minority.'
St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church
'Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat. How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it!'
Matthew 7:13-14
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