How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
JOHN VIANNEYHave 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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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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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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When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary – a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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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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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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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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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