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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.

John Vianney

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
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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Clothes Comfortable Desert
Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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Death One Liner Sin Soul
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
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
God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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Command God Prayer Worry 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
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
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 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
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
A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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Heaven People Priest
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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God Greatness Ourselves Precious
Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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Love Prayer Soul
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
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

If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.

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