We ought to run after crosses as the miser runs after money. . . Nothing but crosses will reassure us at the Day of Judgment When that day shall come, we shall be happy in our misfortunes, proud of our humiliations, and rich in our sacrifices!
JOHN VIANNEYWe ought to run after crosses as the miser runs after money. . . Nothing but crosses will reassure us at the Day of Judgment When that day shall come, we shall be happy in our misfortunes, proud of our humiliations, and rich in our sacrifices!
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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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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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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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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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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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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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The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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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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There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
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We ought to ask the Blessed Virgin, the angels, and the saints to pray for us that we may receive the good God as worthily as it is possible for us to receive him.
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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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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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Have you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give to the poor some alms which will exceed the profit you have made.
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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.
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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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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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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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The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.
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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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