Good Stuff

Some good stuff I read today in The Spiritual Life by Fr. Tanquerey:

The welfare of our soul means security of salvation, increase of merit, and joy of a good conscience.  #362

The great work we are to accomplish here on earth, truly the one thing necessary, is the salvation of our soul.  If we save our soul, even should we lose all the goods of earth : parents, friends, good name, wealth, all is saved; we shall find again in Heaven all we have lost, increased one hundredfold and that for all eternity.  #362

Peace of soul, the joy of a good conscience, the happiness of union with God, of growing in His love, of effecting a closer intimacy with Christ, such are a few of the rewards which, along with the comforting hope of life eternal, God dispenses even now to His faithful servants in the midst of their trials.  #364

There is nothing more noble than to procure the glory of God, nothing more just when we recall all that God has done and ever does for us.  now, a perfect man gives more glory to God than a thousand ordinary souls.  For he multiplies day by day his acts of love, of gratitude, of reparation; he directs toward God his whole life by the oft-renewed offering of ordinary actions, thus giving glory to Him from morning until night.  #365

 There is no better way to do good to others, to bring to God sinners or unbelievers and to strengthen the wavering, than the earnest effort to live a thoroughly Christian life...The best apologetics are those of example coupled with the fulfilment [sic] of all our social duties.  #366