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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.

John Vianney

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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Angel Faith Friendship Night
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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Body Corruption Death Devotion Greatness Satisfaction Soul
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
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
All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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God Offering Religious Waste
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
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
Upon receiving Holy Communion, the Adorable Blood of Jesus Christ really flows in our veins and His Flesh is really blended with ours.
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Blood Connection God Holy Ourselves
God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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Command God Prayer Worry Yourself
It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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God Heart Love Time
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
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
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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God Heaven Number People World
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
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
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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Anxiety Build Burn Carry Forgiveness God Sin Woman

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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