Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
JOHN VIANNEYShall 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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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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The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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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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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.
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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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.
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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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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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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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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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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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If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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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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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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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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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 saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.
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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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The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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