If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.
JOHN VIANNEYThe saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.
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There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!
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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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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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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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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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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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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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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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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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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Oh, how I like those little mortifications that are seen by nobody, such as rising a quarter of an hour sooner, rising for a little while in the night to pray!
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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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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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Christian wife! Follow in the footsteps of the ideal of all womanhood, the Blessed Mother of God; in joy and in sorrow, she will be your advocate at the throne of her Son.
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When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary – a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.
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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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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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If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.
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