Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.
JOHN VIANNEYThe 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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When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary – a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.
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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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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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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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When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.
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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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