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.
Johann Tauler, O.P.
"Be sure of this: there is no creature ever made by God who can set you free or help you; only God can do it. Run about as you will, search high and low the whole world over, you will never find the help you need anywhere except in God. If the Lord chooses to use an instrument, man or angel, to achieve this, He can; but He must do it and no one else."
(From Spiritual Conferences)
Rev. M. Raymond, O.C.S.O.
"Today is a day of ultimates and of clear-cut choices. For the lines are sharply drawn. Either we stand with Mary beneath the cross, or we stand with the shouting rabble about the cross. We find ourselves either as members of the Mystical Body of Christ, or are found to be members of the mystical body of antichrist. We become totalitarian Christians and give our all to God, or we become totalitarian anti-christians and have our all taken by the State. Pius XI stated absolutely that 'in this conflict there is really a question of the fundamental problem of the universe and of the most important decision proposed to man's free will: For God or against God...there is no middle ground, no island on which we can stand, no fence we can straddle. It is Christ or it is antichrist'."
(From God, A Woman and The Way)
Kevin Vost, Psy.D.
"What is the deadliest sin in the world? St. Thomas, following St. Gregory the Great, argued that one sin was in a sense the deadliest of all, more prone to generate other sins, more directly opposed to the goodness of God than even the capital seven. All of the deadly sins have this sin in common, if not as their direct cause, then as an indirect consequence. The sin that has pride of place is the sin of pride itself."
(From The Seven Deadly Sins - A Thomistic Guide to Vanquishing Vice and Sin)
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