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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!

John Vianney

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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Blessing Fall Humility Side
When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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Envelope Holy Love Soul
God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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Command God Prayer Worry Yourself
How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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Death Live Religious Sweet
All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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God Offering Religious Waste
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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Body Experience Fragrance Holy Joy Thrill
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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Beautiful Children Death Happiness Peace Person
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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Children Fall Heaven Hell Myself Save Tree Tremble Winter
Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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God Public Try Yourself
How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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Accompany Angel Happiness Holy
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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Clothes Comfortable Desert
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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Angel Blessing God Goodness Himself Possible Worth
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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Blessing God Help Leaving Yourself
The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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Courage Difficult Fulfill Inspirational Obedience Virtue Work
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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Earth Hell Impurity Man Person
If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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Goodness Impossible Prayer Yourself

How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!

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