Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat. How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it!
Matthew 7:13-14
Lord, are there few that are saved? But he said to them: Strive to enter by the narrow gate; for many, I tell you, shall seek to enter, and shall not be able
Luke 13:23-24
How many souls turn away from the road to glory, and go to hell!
St. Francis Xavier
Those who are saved are in the minority.
St. Thomas Aquinas
Taking into account the behaviour of mankind, only a small part of the human race will be saved. Lucy of Fatima
It is certain that few are saved.
St. Augustine
Ah, how many souls lose Heaven and are cast into Hell!
St. Francis Xavier
So many people are going to die, and almost all of them are going to Hell! So many people falling into hell!
Jacinta of Fatima
How few the Elect are may be understood from the multitude being cast out.
St. Hilary of Poitiers
A great number of Christians are lost.
St. Leonard of Port Maurice
Bad confessions damned the majority of Christians.
St. Teresa of Avila
The number of the saved is as few as the number of grapes left after the vineyard-pickers have passed.
St. John Mary Vianney
Yes, indeed, many will be damned; few will be saved.
St. Benedict Joseph of Labre
Live with the few if you want to reign with the few.
St. John Climacus
The number of the damned is incalculable.
St. Veronica Giuliani
So vast a number of miserable souls perish, and so comparatively few are saved!
St. Philip Neri
The majority of men shall not see God, excepting those who live justly, purified by righteousness and by every other virtue.
St. Justin the Martyr
The majority of souls appear before the Judgement empty-handed. They did nothing good for eternity.
Venerable Mary of Agreda
The greater number of men still say to God: Lord we will not serve Thee; we would rather be slaves of the devil, and condemned to Hell, than be Thy servants. Alas! The greatest number, my Jesus - we may say nearly all - not only do not love Thee, but offend Thee and despise Thee. How many countries there are in which there are scarcely any Catholics, and all the rest either infidels or heretics! And all of them are certainly on the way to being lost.
Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved. St. Jerome
If you wish to imitate the multitude, then you shall not be among the few who shall enter in by the narrow gate.
St. Augustine
They who are to be saved as Saints, and wish to be saved as imperfect souls, shall not be saved. Pope St. Gregory the Great
Ah! A great many persons live constantly in the state of damnation!
St. Vincent de Paul
The common opinion is that the greater part of adults is lost.
St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori
The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong is their way, gross their error, and assured their ruin who, after the testimony of so many thousands of saints, will not learn where to settle their footing.
St. Robert Southwell
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