A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
JOHN VIANNEYHave 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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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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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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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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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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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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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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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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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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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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When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself of all that is not absolutely necessary for life.
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The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.
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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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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to 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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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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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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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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