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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.

John Vianney

The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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Courage Difficult Fulfill Inspirational Obedience Virtue Work
See, my children, a person who is in a state of sin is always sad. Whatever he does, he is weary and disgusted with every thing; while he who is at peace with God is always happy, always joyous. . . Oh, beautiful life! Oh, beautiful death!
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Beautiful Children Death Happiness Peace Person
Shall we all be saved? Shall we go to Heaven? Alas, my children, we do not know at all! But I tremble when I see so many souls lost these days. See, they fall into Hell as leaves fall from the trees at the approach of winter.
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Children Fall Heaven Hell Myself Save Tree Tremble Winter
The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to vomit its impurities upon the earth.
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Earth Hell Impurity Man Person
Christian wife! Follow in the footsteps of the ideal of all womanhood, the Blessed Mother of God; in joy and in sorrow, she will be your advocate at the throne of her Son.
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Herself Ideal Joy Sorrow Woman
If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.
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God Heaven Number People World
If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself of all that is not absolutely necessary for life.
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Attachment Earth Life Necessary Punishment
I thought a time would come when people would rout me out of Ars with sticks, when the Bishop would suspend me, and I should end my days in prison. I see, however, that I am not worthy of such a grace.
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Day Myself People Prison Suspend Thinking Time Worth
If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.
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Blessing God Help Leaving Yourself
Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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Pay Understand Yourself
All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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God Offering Religious Waste
If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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Goodness Impossible Prayer Yourself
The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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Beautiful Fragrance Purity Soul
How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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Death Live Religious Sweet
Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.
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Busy Children Herself Judgement Mary
Our body is a vessel of corruption; it is meant for death and for the worms, nothing more! And yet we devote ourselves to satisfying it, rather than to enriching our soul, which is so great that we can conceive nothing greater – no, nothing, nothing!
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Body Corruption Death Devotion Greatness Satisfaction Soul

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