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.
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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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary – a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.
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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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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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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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We ought to ask the Blessed Virgin, the angels, and the saints to pray for us that we may receive the good God as worthily as it is possible for us to receive him.
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The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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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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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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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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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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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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