Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
JOHN VIANNEYThe pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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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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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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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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The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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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 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 virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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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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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