The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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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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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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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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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The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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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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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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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