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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.

John Vianney

It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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God Heart Love Time
Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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Pay Understand Yourself
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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God Heart Help Love Purity Simplicity
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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Anxiety Build Burn Carry Forgiveness God Sin Woman
Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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Love Prayer Soul
How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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Accompany Angel Happiness Holy
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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Body Corruption Death Devotion Greatness Satisfaction Soul
On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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Count Path Step
A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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Heaven People Priest
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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Command Government Heaven Live Service
All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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God Offering Religious Waste
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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Herself Ideal Joy Sorrow Woman
The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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Beautiful Fragrance Purity Soul
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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Attachment Earth Life Necessary Punishment
Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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God Public Try Yourself
God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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Command God Prayer Worry Yourself

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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