Pondering Tidbits of Truth - November 5, 2026



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.



Sister Ruth Burrows, O.C.D.

“Both in life and after death, it is love that purifies. If in Life we allow God to come close to us in love, to take us in his arms and hold us fast, this inevitably means pain, simply because we are so twisted, hard and unyielding. If we submit, his love softens us, straightens us out, transforms us into his own likeness. The pain of purification is the direct effect of love. And this is the same after death.”

(From To Believe in Jesus)


Congressman Henry J. Hyde 

"When the time comes, as it surely will, when we face the awesome minute, the Final Judgment, I've often thought, as Fulton Sheen wrote, that it is a terrible momement of loneliness. You have no advocates, you are there alone standing before God, and a terror will rip through your soul like nothing you can imagine.

"But I really think that those in the pro-life movement will not be alone. I think there will be a chorus of voices that have never been heard in this world but are heard beautifully and clearly in the next world, and they will plead for everyone who has been in the movement. They will say to God, 'Spare him because he loved us,' and God will look at you and say not, 'Did you suceed,' but 'Did you try?' "

(From Heed The Unforgetable Words of Henry Hyde from National Review, January 9, 2026)


Catherine Doherty, Servant of God

"We seek happiness. We seek love. And we forget that love beyond our understanding, happiness, beyond our comprehension, lies on the other side of death's door.

For what is this life everlasting, this eternal life, this heaven, this paradise that all the religious books, starting from a children's catechism, talk about? It is no less than union with God! The God who created us and the God who loves us."

(From the My Dear Family column in the November 2026 issue of Restoration) 

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