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The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.

John Vianney

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
How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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Accompany Angel Happiness Holy
All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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God Offering Religious Waste
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 Heart Help Love Purity Simplicity
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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Books Devil Empty Sin Writing
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
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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Command Government Heaven Live Service
Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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Death Errors God Mistake
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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Blessing Fragrance Hands Herself Prayer Touch
Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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Pay Understand Yourself
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
It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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God Heart Love Time
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
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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Attachment Earth Life Necessary Punishment
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

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