Choose a topic from Part 2B:
1. Blasphemy is a direct disparging of the divinegoodness. It is therefore a sin in conflict with the faith. For hewho has the faith confesses to the divine goodness.
2. Blasphemy, by its genus or the generalessential class of sins to which it belongs, is always a mortalsin.
3. We have seen that unbelief is the greatest of sinsagainst faith. Blasphemy is an emphatic form of unbelief. Hence, inspeaking of sins against faith, blasphemy is often called the worstof sins.
4. The wicked in hell detest the divine goodness andjustice, and thus they blaspheme. It is believable that, after theresurrection of the body at general judgment, human beings in hellwill utter their blasphemies audibly.
"It is well to choose some one good devotion, and to stick to it, and never to abandon it."
St Philip Neri
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"God gives us some things, as the beginning of faith, even when we do not pray. Other things, such as perseverance, he has only provided for those who pray."
St Augustine
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"It is vanity to be concerned with the present only and not to make provision for things to come."
Thomas á Kempis
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