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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.

John Vianney

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 we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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Envelope Holy Love Soul
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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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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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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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Goodness Impossible Prayer Yourself
If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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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!
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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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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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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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Blood Connection God Holy Ourselves

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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