Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
JOHN VIANNEYIf 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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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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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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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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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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 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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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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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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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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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