The Fewness of the Saved

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The Fewness of those who are Saved ... from Hell
An eternal separation from God

Catholic writing of Romans 11:5
"There is a remnant saved according to the election of grace."

Note 1: One can easily recognize the fewness of the saved since Christ re-opened Heaven in one prescribed way ... being baptized in water (see Section 7 and sub-sections), believing the full Catholic Faith (see Sections 5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 9), and doing works of charity to merit Heaven (see Sections 28, and 29). It isn't so surprising that the below quotes read as they do.

Note 2: One of Satan's greatest accomplishments in our time is the widely held belief that almost everyone is saved from Hell, but the opposite is true.

Catholic Citations on the fewness of the saved:

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Blessed Louis Marie de Montfort, died 1716 A.D. >
"The number of the Elect is so small, so small that, were we to know how small it is, we would faint away with grief. One here and there, scattered up and down the world."

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Saint John Chrysostom, Doctor of the Church, died 407 A.D. >
"What do you think? How many of the inhabitants of this city (Antioch) may perhaps be saved? Out of this thickly-populated city, not one hundred people will be saved. I doubt whether there will even be as many as that."

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Saint Anselm, Doctor of the Church, died 1109 A.D. >
"If you would be quite sure of your salvation, strive to be among the fewest of the few. Do not follow the majority of mankind, but follow those who renounce the world and never relax their efforts day or night so that they may attain everlasting blessedness."

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Saint Alphonsus Maria Liguori, Doctor of the Church, died 1787 A.D. >
"Scarcely anyone is saved."

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Saint Gregory Nazianzus, died 389 A.D., Bishop of Constantinople, The Faith of the Early Fathers, Against the Arians, Vol 2, pg 33 >
"Where are they who revile us for our poverty and pride themselves in their riches? They who define the Church by numbers and scorn the little flock?

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Saint Augustine, Doctor of the Church, died 430 A.D. >
"It is certain that few are saved."

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Catholic writing of Romans 9:27 >
"And Isaias crieth out concerning Israel: If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved."

Catholic writing of Romans 11:5 >
"There is a remnant saved according to the election of grace."

Note: The religion of the Old Testament Israelites was the Catholic Faith unfulfilled it wasn't "judaism" (see Sections 4, 7.2.1, 31, and 39.1). The Israelite religion (they weren't "jews") was fulfilled when Christ re-opened Heaven for men's souls after Original Sin closed it by re-introducing sanctifying grace into men's souls. The sanctifying grace which remits Original Sin is obtained only through water baptism, see Section 7.2 of this site.

As of the First Pentecost, water baptism became mandatory to stay within God's covenant. Remaining in God's covenant after baptism means believing all of the Catholic Dogma and Sources of Dogma. We see how few people there are who believe the Dogma and this is why God says that only a remnant apply the redemption (the re-opening of Heaven) to their souls ... by believing the Faith. One must also do works of charity to merit Heaven (see Sections 28 and 29) and stay free of grave sin.

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Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of 4 Kings 19:31 >
"For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and that which shall be saved out of mountSion."

Note: Same note as above record.

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Saint Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church, died 1274 A.D. >
"There are a select few who are saved."

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Catholic writing of Saint Matthew 22:14 >
"For many are called, but few are chosen."

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Venerable Robert Bellarmine, died 1621 A.D. >
"It is granted to few to recognize the true Church amid the darkness of so many schisms and heresies, and to fewer still so to love the truth which they have seen as to fly to its embrace."

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Saint Teresa of Avila, died 1582 A.D. >
"I had the greatest sorrow for the many souls that condemned themselves to Hell, especially those 'lutherans' ... I saw souls falling into hell like snowflakes."

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Catholic writing of Saint Matthew 7:13-14 >
"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."

Note: This scripture does not speak of a path that many are on and then fall away or leave. People receive actual grace to move toward the Catholic Truth (the narrow way) ... to believe the Catholic Dogma and Sources of Dogma and be baptized in water, and then to continue in believing the Faith. This scripture states that there are few who even find the path to start with ... because they do not cooperate with actual grace sufficiently to get to the full knowledge of the Dogma. You can't stay on something that you do not even find.

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Catholic writing of Saint Luke 13:23-24 >
"Lord, are they few that are saved? But he said to them: Strive to enter by the narrow gate; for many, I say to you, shall seek to enter, and shall not be able."

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Saint Philip Neri, died 1595 A.D. >
"So vast a number of miserable souls perish, and so comparatively few are saved."

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Blessed John Marie Vianney, died 1589 A.D. >
"The number of the saved is as few as the number of grapes left after the pickers have passed."

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Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Isaias 17:5-6 >
"It shall be as when a man gathers in the harvest, and the fruit that shall be left shall be as a single cluster of grapes; two or three berries on top of a bough; or four or five on the top of a tree."

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Blessed Louis Marie de Montfort, died 1716 A.D. >
"Do not be deceived; there are only two roads: one that leads to life and is narrow; the other that leads to death and is wide. There is no middle way."

Note: Heretic protestantism is not a middle way, it only leads to damnation with the un-baptized pagans who call themselves jews.

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Robert Southwell, died 1595 A.D. >
"Oh how much are worldlings deceived who think to go to Heaven by the wide way that leadeth only to perdition. The path to Heaven is narrow, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong is their way and assured their ruin who, after the testimony of so many saints, will not learn where to settle their footing."

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Saint Alphonsus Maria Liguori, Doctor of the Church, died 1787 A.D. >
"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."

Note: Infidels are the un-baptized ("jews", "mohammedans", "hindus", "buddhists", etc.) they are also called pagans.

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Saint John of the Cross, died 1591 A.D. >
"Behold how many there are who are called, and how few who are chosen. And, if you have no care for yourself, your perdition is more certain than your amendment, especially since the way which leads to eternal life is so narrow."

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Saint Arsenius, died c. 445 A.D. >
"Brethren, the just man shall scarcely be saved. What, then, will become of the sinner?"

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Catholic writing of 1 Saint Peter 4:18 >
"If the just man shall scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly sinner appear?"

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Catholic writing of Saint Matthew 7:13-14 >
"How narrow is the gate and how strait the way that leads to life, and few there are who find it."

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Anna Maria Taigi, died 1837 A.D. >
"The destiny of those dying on one day is that not as many as ten went straight to Heaven; and those cast into Hell were as numerous as snowflakes in winter."

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Blessed John Marie Vianney, died 1859 A.D. >
"I tremble when I see how many souls are lost these days. They fall into Hell like leaves from the trees at the approach of winter."

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Saint Leonard of Port Maurice, died 1751 A.D. >
"O abyss of the judgments of God! Out of thirty thousand, only five were saved! And out of sixty thousand, only three went to Heaven! You sinners who are listening to me, in what category will you be numbered? ... What do you say? ... What do you think?"

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Saint Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church, died 1274 A.D. >
"There are a select few who are saved."

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Saint Francis Xavier, died 1552 A.D. >
"How many souls turn away from the road to glory, and go to Hell."

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Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Isaias 10:19 >
"They shall be so few that they shall easily be counted, and a child shall write them down."

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Pope Saint Gregory the Great, 590-604 A.D. >
"There are many who arrive at the faith, but few who are led into the heavenly kingdom. Behold how many are gathered here for today's Feast-Day: we fill the church from wall to wall. Yet who knows how few they are who shall be numbered in that chosen company of the Elect?"

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Anthony Mary Claret, died 1870 A.D. >
"A multitude of souls fall into the depths of Hell, and it is of the faith that all who die in mortal sin are condemned for ever and ever. According to statistics, approximately 80,000 persons die every day. How many of these will die in mortal sin, and how many will be condemned. For, as their lives have been, so also will be their end."

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Saint Augustine, Doctor of the Church, died 430 A.D. >
"As a man lives, so shall he die."

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Saint Vincent de Paul, died 1660 A.D. >
"A great many persons live constantly in the state of damnation."

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Pope Saint Gregory the Great, 590-604 A.D. >
"The more the wicked abound, so much the more must we suffer with them in patience; for on the threshing floor few are the grains carried into the barns, but high are the piles of chaff burned with fire."

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Mary of Agreda, died 1665 A.D. >
"Countless hosts have fallen into Hell."

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Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Ecclesiastes 1:15 >
"The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is infinite."

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Saint Alphonsus Maria Liguori, Doctor of the Church, died 1787 A.D. >
"The greater part of men choose to be damned rather than to love Almighty God."

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Saint Veronica Giuliani, died 1727 A.D. >
"The number of the damned is incalculable."

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Saint Alphonsus Maria Liguori, Doctor of the Church, died 1787 A.D. >
"What is the number of those who love Thee, O God? How few they are. The Elect are much fewer than the damned. Alas! The greater portion of mankind lives in sin unto the devil, and not unto Jesus Christ. O Saviour of the world, I thank Thee for having called and permitted us to live in the true faith which the Holy Roman Catholic Church teaches. [...] But alas, O my Jesus! How small is the number of those who live in this holy faith! Oh, God! The greater number of men he buried in the darkness of infidelity and heresy. Thou hast humbled Thyself to death, to the death of the cross, for the salvation of men, and these ungrateful men are unwilling even to know Thee. Ah, I pray Thee, O omnipotent God, O sovereign and infinite Good, make all men know and love Thee."

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Saint Leo of Patara, died 260 A.D. >
"I see around me a multitude of those who, blindly persevering in error, despise the true God; but I am a Christian nevertheless, and I follow the instruction of the Apostles. If this deserves chastisement, reward it; for I am determined to suffer every torture rather then become the slave of the devil. Others may do as they please since they are ... reckless of the future life which is to be obtained only by sufferings. Scripture tells us that "narrow is the way that leads to life" ... because it is one of affliction and of persecutions suffered for the sake of justice; but it is wide enough for those who walk upon it, because their faith and the hope of an eternal reward make it so for them. [...] On the contrary, the road of vice is in reality narrow, and it leads to an eternal precipice."

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Saint Benedict Joseph Labre, died 1783 A.D. >
"I was watching souls going down into the abyss as thick and fast as snowflakes falling in the winter mist."

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Saint Justin the Martyr, died 165 A.D. >
"The majority of men shall not see God, excepting those who live justly, purified by righteousness and by every other virtue."

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Mary of Agreda, died 1665 A.D. >
"The majority of souls appear before the Judgment empty-handed. They did nothing good for eternity."

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Saint Alphonsus Maria Liguori, Doctor of the Church, died 1787 A.D. >
"All infidels and heretics are surely on the way to being lost. What an obligation we owe God for causing us to be born not only after the coming of Jesus Christ, but also in countries where the true faith reigns. I thank Thee, O Lord, for this. Woe to me if, after so many transgressions, it had been my fate to live in the midst of infidels or heretics."

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Blessed Sebastian Valfre, died 1710 A.D. >
"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."

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Pope Saint Gregory the Great, 590-604 A.D. >
"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 HolyChurch is indeed wide in the number of those who are carnal minded, narrow in the number of those who are spiritual."

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Saint Alphonsus Maria Liguori, Doctor of the Church, died 1787 A.D. >
"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."

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Blessed John Eudes, died 1680 A.D. >
"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."

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Robert Southwell, died 1595 A.D. >
"Oh how much are the worldlings deceived that rejoice in the time of weeping, and make their place of imprisonment a palace of pleasure; that consider the examples of the Saints as follies, and their end as dishonorable; that think to go to Heaven by the wide way that leadeth only to perdition."

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Saint Bede the Venerable, Doctor of the Church, died 735 A.D. >
"Nor should we think that it is enough for salvation that we are no worse off than the mass of the careless and indifferent, or that in our (true) faith we are, like so many others, uninstructed."

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Saint Alphonsus Maria Liguori, Doctor of the Church, died 1787 A.D. >
"We owe God a deep ... gratitude for the purely gratuitous gift of the true faith with which he has favored us. How many are the infidels, heretics and schismatic who do not enjoy comparable happiness? The earth is full of them and they are all lost."

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Blessed James of Voragine, died 1298 A.D. >
"One day, St. Macarius found a skull and asked it whose head it had been. 'A pagan's!' it replied. 'And where is your soul?' he asked. 'In Hell.' came the reply. Macarius then asked the skull if its place was very deep in Hell. 'As far down as the earth is lower than Heaven.' 'And are there any other souls lodged even lower?" 'Yes, the souls of the Jews.' 'And even lower than the Jews?' 'Yes! The souls of bad Christians who were redeemed with the Blood of Christ and held there privilege so cheaply'."

Note: The word Christians in this quote means Catholics. Only Catholics are Christians.

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Saint Alphonsus Maria Liguori, Doctor of the Church, died 1787 A.D. >
"St. Teresa, as the Roman Rota attests, never fell into any mortal sin; but still Our Lord showed her the place prepared for her in Hell; not because she deserved Hell, but because, had she not risen from the state of luke-warmness in which she lived, she would in the end have lost the grace of God and been damned."