God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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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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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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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If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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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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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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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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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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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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I thought a time would come when people would rout me out of Ars with sticks, when the Bishop would suspend me, and I should end my days in prison. I see, however, that I am not worthy of such a grace.
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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary – a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.
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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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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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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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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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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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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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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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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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