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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!

John Vianney

Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
JOHN VIANNEY

God Public Try Yourself
If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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Goodness Impossible Prayer Yourself
I thought a time would come when people would rout me out of Ars with sticks, when the Bishop would suspend me, and I should end my days in prison. I see, however, that I am not worthy of such a grace.
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Day Myself People Prison Suspend Thinking Time Worth
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
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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Blessing God Help Leaving Yourself
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
On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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Count Path Step
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 first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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Angel Conscious God Imitation Presence
All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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God Offering Religious Waste
Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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Pay Understand Yourself
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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Herself Ideal Joy Sorrow Woman
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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Judgement Misery Money Ourselves Rich Run Sacrifice
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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Myself Night Prayer Rise See
How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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Death Live Religious Sweet
Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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Death One Liner Sin Soul
Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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Love Prayer Soul
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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Children Fall Heaven Hell Myself Save Tree Tremble Winter
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
If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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Angel Fight Ourselves See Temptation
God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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Command God Prayer Worry Yourself
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
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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Bitter Deserve Forgiveness God Hate Offend
Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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Death Errors God Mistake
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
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
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.
JOHN VIANNEY

Blessing Fragrance Hands Herself Prayer Touch

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