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.
JOHN VIANNEYOnly 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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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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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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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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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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It is always springtime in the heart that loves 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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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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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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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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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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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