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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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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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 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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We ought to run after crosses as the miser runs after money. . . Nothing but crosses will reassure us at the Day of Judgment When that day shall come, we shall be happy in our misfortunes, proud of our humiliations, and rich in our sacrifices!
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There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
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The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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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 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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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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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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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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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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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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The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of 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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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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I thought a time would come when people would rout me out of Ars with sticks, when the Bishop would suspend me, and I should end my days in prison. I see, however, that I am not worthy of such a grace.
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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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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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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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