To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.
JOHN VIANNEYThe virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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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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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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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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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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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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Upon receiving Holy Communion, the Adorable Blood of Jesus Christ really flows in our veins and His Flesh is really blended with ours.
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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to 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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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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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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