See, my children, a person who is in a state of sin is always sad. Whatever he does, he is weary and disgusted with every thing; while he who is at peace with God is always happy, always joyous. . . Oh, beautiful life! Oh, beautiful death!
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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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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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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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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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 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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When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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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 only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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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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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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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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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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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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Have you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give to the poor some alms which will exceed the profit you have made.
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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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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 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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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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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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