SERMONS OF THE CURE OF ARS - EXCERPTS
THE DREADFUL STATE OF THE LUKEWARM SOUL
HAVE YOU RELIGION IN YOUR HEART?
THE WORLD IS EVERYTHING AND GOD IS NOTHING!
YOUR HEART IS BUT A MASS OF PRIDE
THE TONGUE OF THE SCANDAL-MONGER
ST. NICHOLAS AND THE THREE GIRLS
ARE YOUR AFFAIRS GOING BETTER?
HOW DEATH WILL REVEAL THIEVES!
IF YOU KNOW HOW TO GIVE, YOU MUST KNOW HOW TO PAY BACK
THE DUTIES OF THE PREGNANT WOMAN
YOU WILL ANSWER FOR THEIR SOULS
TO THEIR SHAME IT MUST BE SAID
GETTING TO KNOW THE RIGHT PEOPLE
BEWARE IF YOU HAVE NO TEMPTATIONS
IT IS NECESSARY TO BE CONVERTED
YOUR PRAYERS ARE ONLY AN INSULT
THE SERVICE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN
Ah, dear lord, what blindness! oh, ugly sin of hypocrisy which leads souls to hell with actions which, if they had been performed from genuine motives, would have brought them to Heaven! Unfortunately, such a large body of Christians do not know themselves and do not even try to know themselves. They follow routines and habits, and they do not want to see reason. They are blind, and they move along in their blindness. If a priest wants to tell them about the state they are in, they do not listen, and if they go through the pretence of listening, they will do nothing at all about what they are told.
This state, my dear people, is the most unhappy state that anyone can possibly imagine, and it is perhaps the most dangerous one as well.