Pondering Tidbits of Truth - November 28, 2019

Happy Thanksgiving!

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.

Venerable Fulton J. Sheen

"When you fail to measure up to your Christian privilege, be not discouraged for discouragement is a form of pride. The reason you are sad is because you looked to yourself and not to God; to your failings not to His love. You will shake off your faults more readily when you love God than when you criticize yourself. You have always the right to love Him in your heart even though you do not love Him in your acts. God is biased in your favor. God is more lenient than you because he is perfectly good and therefore loves you more. Be bold enough then to believe that God is on your side, even when you forget to be on His."

(From Remade for Happiness: Achieving Life's Purpose through Spiritual Transformation)

Blessed Henry Suso, O.P.

"Why remain sad and idle? Why exhaust thyself in the anguish of melancholy? Have courage, do violence to yourself, meditate on the passion of Jesus Christ, and you shall overcome your sorrow."  

(From Mary, Help of Christians: And the Fourteen Saints Invoked as Holy Helper)

C. S. Lewis

"Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the Christian rule is, ‘Either marriage, with complete faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence.’ Now this is so difficult and so contrary to our instincts, that obviously either Christianity is wrong or our sexual instinct, as it now is, has gone wrong. One or the other. Of course, being a Christian, I think it is the instinct which has gone wrong." 

                                                                                       (From Mere Christianity)