A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
JOHN VIANNEYThe pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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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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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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The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.
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When our hands have touched spices, they give fragrance to all they handle. Let us make our prayers pass through the hands of the Blessed Virgin. She will make them fragrant.
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