The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
JOHN VIANNEY
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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The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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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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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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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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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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 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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There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!
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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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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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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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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