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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.

John Vianney

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
A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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Heaven People Priest
When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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Envelope Holy Love Soul
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
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
How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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Accompany Angel Happiness Holy
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 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
Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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Death Errors God Mistake
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
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
To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.
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Command Government Heaven Live Service
If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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Angel Fight Ourselves See Temptation
Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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Love Prayer Soul
You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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Choice God World Yourself
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

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