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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.

John Vianney

A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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Heaven People Priest
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
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
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
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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God Greatness Ourselves Precious
I thought a time would come when people would rout me out of Ars with sticks, when the Bishop would suspend me, and I should end my days in prison. I see, however, that I am not worthy of such a grace.
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Day Myself People Prison Suspend Thinking Time Worth
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
Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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Pay Understand Yourself
Upon receiving Holy Communion, the Adorable Blood of Jesus Christ really flows in our veins and His Flesh is really blended with ours.
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Blood Connection God Holy Ourselves
How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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Death Live Religious Sweet
You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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Choice God World Yourself
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
Oh, how I like those little mortifications that are seen by nobody, such as rising a quarter of an hour sooner, rising for a little while in the night to pray!
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Myself Night Prayer Rise See
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
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

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