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 VIANNEYIf 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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When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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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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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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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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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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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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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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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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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