Brethren, the just man shall scarcely be saved.
What, then, will become of the sinner?
St. Arsenius
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If the just man shall scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly man and the sinner appear?
I St. Peter 1:18
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I fear that Last Day, that day of tribulation and anguish, of calamity and misery, of mist and darkness, that Day on which, if the just have reason to fear, how much more should I:
an impious, wretched, and ungrateful sinner!
Blessed Sebastian Valfre
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The Ark, which in the midst of the Flood was a symbol of the Church, was wide below and narrow above;
and, at the summit, measured only a single cubit. [...]
It was wide where the animals were, narrow where men lived: for the Holy Church is indeed wide in the number of those who are carnal minded, narrow in the number of those who are spiritual.
Pope St. Gregory the Great
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In the Great Deluge in the days of Noah, nearly all mankind perished, eight persons alone being saved in the Ark.
In our days a deluge, not of water but of sins, continually inundates the earth, and out of this deluge very few escape.
Scarcely anyone is saved.
St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori
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Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved.
St. Jerome
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Get out of the filth of the horrible torrent of this world, the torrent of thorns that is whirling you into the abyss of eternal perdition. [...]
This torrent is the world, which resembles an impetuous torrent, full of garbage and evil odours, making a lot of noise but flowing swiftly passed, dragging the majority of men into the pit of perdition.
St. John Eudes
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