The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
JOHN VIANNEYHumility 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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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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The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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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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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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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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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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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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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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