End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life Quotes

“Forgetting that human life is a reality and not fiction, he seeks diversion in frivolous amusements, squanders his best years in pleasures and idleness and boredom, and consumes fruitlessly the talent that God had entrusted to him. In this enfeebling frame of mind, a man need only come before him with threatening words and the power to interfere with his repose, interests, or pleasures, and the man will at once be his master, will have full power to subject him either to a degrading bondage or to unspeakable tortures.”
― Charles Arminjon, End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life

“off from the vision of the beauties and rewards to come.”
― Charles Arminjon, End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life

“of the two old men of Babylon: "They suppressed their consciences; they would not allow their eyes to look to heaven, and did not keep in mind God's just judgments."'
The two causes of this terrifying indifference and profound universal lethargy are, obviously, ignorance and the unrestrained love of sensual pleasures that, by darkening the interior eye of the human soul, bring all its aspirations down to the narrow level of
the present life, and cut it”
― Charles Arminjon, End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life

“and the profound neglect of the great truths of the future life. The earth is afflicted with a dreadful desolation, because the majority of men, fascinated by the lure of fleeting pleasures, and absorbed in their worldly interests and the care of their material affairs, no longer fix their thoughts on the principal considerations of the Faith, and stubbornly refuse to recollect within themselves.”
― Charles Arminjon, End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life

“It has seemed to us that one of the saddest fruits of rationalism, the fatal error and great plague of our century, the pestilential source from which our revolutions and social disasters arise, is the absence of the sense of the supernatural”
― Charles Arminjon, End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life

“The man who is inflamed with the fire of divine love is as indifferent to glory and ignominy as if he were alone and unseen on this earth. He spurns all temptations. He is no more troubled by pincers, gridirons, or racks than if these sufferings were endured in a body other than his own.”
― Charles Arminjon, End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life

“fruits of rationalism, the fatal error and great plague of our century, the pestilential source from which our revolutions and social disasters arise, is the absence of the sense of the supernatural and the profound neglect of the great truths of the future life. The earth is afflicted with a dreadful desolation,”
― Charles Arminjon, End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life