Pondering Tidbits of Truth - November 22, 2018


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Pondering Tidbits of Truth is my simple and inadequate way of providing nuggets of spiritual wisdom for you to chew on from time to time.




 Dr. Peter Kreeft


“To care is even more important than to know, for it is the only way to know the most important thing: yourself, your soul, your identity, your purpose, your destiny and your immortality. If we are indifferent instead of seeking, we simply will not find, that is, we will not be saved. Hell is not populated mainly by passionate rebels but nice, bland, indifferent, respectable people who simply never gave a damn.”

(From Christianity For Modern Pagans)


St. Alphonsus de Liguori



“God is merciful. Who denies it? But, great as His mercy is, how many does He every day send to hell? God is merciful, but He is also just, and is, therefore, obliged to punish those who offend Him. And ‘His mercy,’ says the divine mother, extends ‘to them that fear him’. (Luke 1:50). But with regard to those who abuse His mercy and despise Him, He exercises mercy.”

(From On The Abuse of God’s Mercy)


Dr. Peter Kreeft


“One wonders how much of Christianity’s power to win the world has been crippled by the modern fashion of denying or ignoring the reality of Hell. It is certainly a fashion rather than a proof or a discovery. Both reason and faith inform us of Hell: reason, because it is irrational to think that souls created free to refuse God can be compelled to accept him; faith, because if no one goes to Hell, then Jesus is a liar or a fool, for he more than anyone warned against it.”

(From Christianity For Modern Pagans)

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