“In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God to do? To wipe out their past sins and, at all costs, to give them a fresh start, smoothing every difficulty and offering every miraculous help? But He has done so, on Calvary. To forgive them? They will not be forgiven. To leave them alone? Alas, I am afraid that is what He does.” GivingLongDoeDoneHelpingRunningPastSinAnswersHellObjectsCostDifficultyAskingForgivingDoctrineOfferingLong RunsForgivenAlasMiraculousWipeFresh StartCalvaryAsking God Author:C. S. Lewis
“Don't turn your back upon your doctrinal doubts and difficulties. Go up to them and examine them. Perhaps the ghastly object which looks to you in the twilight like a sheeted ghost may prove to be no more than a table-cloth hanging upon a hedge.” LooksMayTurnsFearDoubtObjectsProveDifficultyTablesGhostDoctrineTwilightGhastly Book:The Recreations of a Country Parson Source: The Recreations of a Country Parson
“Modern minds no longer object to the Church because of the way they think, but because of the way they live. They no longer have difficulties with the Creed, but with her Commandments. The heresy of our day is not the heresy of thought, but of action.” ThinkingWayMindActionChurchModernObjectsDifficultyCreedsCommandmentsHeresy Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what is to be done in given circumstances and does it. He does not beat about the bush for difficulties or excuses, but goes the shortest and most effectual way to work to attain his own ends, or to accomplish a useful object.” KnowsWayMindPersonsDoeEndsDoneGivenObjectsCircumstancesBeatsDifficultySticksExcuseAccomplish Book:Table talk Source: Table talk
“If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it.” IfsWantDesireObjectsDifficultyDeterminedObsessionAcquireConvinceConvincingConvincing Yourself Book:Get Rich Collection Source: Get Rich Collection
“I travel, work, suffer my weak health, meet with a thousand difficulties, but all these are nothing, for this world is so small. To me, space is an imperceptible object, as I am accustomed to dwell in eternity.” WorldSufferingSpaceObjectsThis WorldThousandWeakEternityDifficultyAccustomed Author:Frances Xavier Cabrini