"Woe betide those who have died without fulfilling their mission, those who called to grace have lived in sin, those who invited to adore Christ have preferred the unbelieving and crazy world, those who called to fight have remained idle, those who invited to be Catholics have stopped at the religion of their fathers!
Sad is the fate of those who have received gifts and have not used them or have misused them; who have attained riches and have spent them only on themselves; who have had talent, and have defended the sinful, ridiculed the true or sown doubts against the sacred; who have had time, and have squandered it with bad company, perverse books or frivolous amusements! Woe to those who, being praised for their anodyne or naturally kindly life, have never tried to purify their hearts and live in the presence of God!"
John Henry Newman, Discourses on the Faith.
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