Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
JOHN VIANNEYOur 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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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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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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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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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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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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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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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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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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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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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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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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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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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