How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
JOHN VIANNEYThe virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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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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Have 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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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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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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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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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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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 first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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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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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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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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 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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