Endeavoring Catholic Perfection: despise oneself

To despise oneself and despise no one; to despise the world and despise being despised (St. Louis Bertrand).

Quotes

"Consider that our eternal salvation is not only the greatest, but the only business we have, to which we ought to apply ourselves entirely lest we should do it ill."

"Salvation is our great and chief business; now a man's chief business takes up all his thoughts, and hardly gives him time to think of any other; and if this succeeds he comforts himself for the miscarriage of the rest." - Fr. Jean Croiset

"In this important matter [salvation], a sensible man is struck more strongly by the slightest doubt of the risk he runs than by the evidence of total ruin in other affairs in which the soul is not involved." - St. Leonard de Port-Maurice

"If anyone affirms that one can reach perfection without practicing exterior mortification, do not believe him; and even though he confirm this assertion by working miracles, know that his contentions are nothing but illusions." - St. John of the Cross

Quotes from On the Small Number of the Saved:

"A penitent is a man...who refuses himself the most innocent pleasures, because he had formerly indulged in the most criminal." - Tertullian

"...a religious and pious soul in the midst of the world, is always a singularity approaching to a miracle."

"... It is the multitude nevertheless, who tremble not. There is only a small number of just, which operates apart its salvation, with fear and trembling; all the rest are tranquil."

"...in order to merit salvation, you must distinguish yourself from the rest; in the midst of the world, lead a life to the glory of God, and resemble not the multitude."

"Behold the fruit which you ought to reap from this discourse; live apart; think, without ceasing, that the great number work their own destruction; regard as nothing all customs of the earth, unless authorized by the law of God; and remember, that holy men have, in all ages, been looked upon as singular."

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