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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.

John Vianney

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
Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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Pay Understand 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
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
It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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God Heart Love Time
A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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Heaven People Priest
The Devil writes down our sins – our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel’s book may be full, and the Devil’s empty.
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Books Devil Empty Sin Writing
On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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Count Path Step
You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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Choice God World Yourself
There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!
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Clothes Comfortable Desert
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.
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Blessing Fall Humility Side
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
Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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Love Prayer Soul
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
Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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God Public Try Yourself
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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God Heart Help Love Purity Simplicity

On this path, it is only the first step that counts.

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