When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.
JOHN VIANNEYOur 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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The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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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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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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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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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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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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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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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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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