If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.
JOHN VIANNEYGod commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.
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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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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 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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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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 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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We ought to run after crosses as the miser runs after money. . . Nothing but crosses will reassure us at the Day of Judgment When that day shall come, we shall be happy in our misfortunes, proud of our humiliations, and rich in our sacrifices!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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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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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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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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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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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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