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.
JOHN VIANNEYThe 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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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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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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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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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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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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The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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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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The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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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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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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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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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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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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