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.
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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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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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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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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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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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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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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When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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Shall we all be saved? Shall we go to Heaven? Alas, my children, we do not know at all! But I tremble when I see so many souls lost these days. See, they fall into Hell as leaves fall from the trees at the approach of winter.
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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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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 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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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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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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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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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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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 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 virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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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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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