Here is some incentive for our continued resolve to live a life of penitence.
From St. Alphonsus De Ligouri: "Thus says St. Bernard:'Look to the sins of your youth, and be covered with shame. Remember the sins of manhood and weep.' Look to the present disorders of your life; tremble, and hasten to apply a remedy."

Perhaps no words have ever been spoken so humbly and ominously as those of Saint Francis: "Pleasure is short; punishment eternal. To all retribution shall be made."