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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.

John Vianney

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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Bitter Deserve Forgiveness God Hate Offend
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
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
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
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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Angel Blessing God Goodness Himself Possible Worth
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!
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Judgement Misery Money Ourselves Rich Run Sacrifice
Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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Love Prayer Soul
All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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God Offering Religious Waste
Our Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them.
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Angel Faith Friendship Night
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
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
You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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Choice God World Yourself
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
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
On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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Count Path Step
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

If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.

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