Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.
There are no unforgivable sins.
As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.
Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
That's what troubles me: I should like to suffer more for the expiation of my sins.
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
One is punished by the very things by which he sins.