St. Catherine of Siena
"We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence."
Father Frederick Faber
If we hated sin as we ought to hate it, purely, keenly, manfully, we should do
more penance, we should inflict more self-punishment, we should sorrow for our
sins more abidingly. Then, again, the crowning disloyalty to God is heresy. It
is the sin of sins, the very loathsomest of things which God looks down upon in
this malignant world. Yet how little do we understand of its excessive
hatefulness! It is the polluting of God's truth, which is the worst of all
impurities.
Yet how light we make of it! We
look at it and are calm. We touch it and do not shudder. We mix with it and have
no fear. We see it touch holy things, and we have no sense of sacrilege. We
breathe its odor, and show no signs of detestation or disgust. Some of us affect
its friendship; and some even extenuate its guilt. We do not love God enough to
be angry for His glory. We do not love men enough to be charitably truthful for
their souls.
(From The Precious Blood)
"It is quite certain that, when we empty ourselves of all that is creature and rid ourselves of it for the love of God, that same Lord will fill our souls with Himself."
(From Interior Castle)
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