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.
JOHN VIANNEYOur 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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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 saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against 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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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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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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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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If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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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When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.
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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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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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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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