To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.
JOHN VIANNEYIf 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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Our 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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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