Benedict Joseph Labre Quotes

• God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon ourselves to his paternal care.

  Benedict Joseph Labre

  Religious, Affliction, Care

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• Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among the few who are chosen. Think of the eternal flames of Hell, and how few there are that are saved.

  Benedict Joseph Labre

  Christian, Thinking, Flames

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• We offend God because we do not know His greatness.

  Benedict Joseph Labre

  Greatness, Saint, Knows

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• 'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.'

  Benedict Joseph Labre

  Soul, Purpose, Examination

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• However much we suffer for the love of Jesus Crucified, it is but little.

  Benedict Joseph Labre

  Jesus, Suffering, Saint

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• I was watching souls going down into the abyss as thick and fast as snowflakes falling in the winter mist.

  Benedict Joseph Labre

  Fall, Winter, Soul

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• He who knows what God is, studies to avoid sin.

  Benedict Joseph Labre

  Study, Sin, Knows

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• The poor should live by alms.

  Benedict Joseph Labre

  Poor, Should, Alms

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