How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
JOHN VIANNEYWe 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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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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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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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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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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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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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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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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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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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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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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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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