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 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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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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