On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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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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If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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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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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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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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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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The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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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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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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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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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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The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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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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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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