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The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.

John Vianney

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
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
Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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Love Prayer Soul
On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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Count Path Step
All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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God Offering Religious Waste
How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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Accompany Angel Happiness Holy
If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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Angel Fight Ourselves See Temptation
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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Body Experience Fragrance Holy Joy Thrill
Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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Pay Understand Yourself
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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Angel Blessing God Goodness Himself Possible Worth
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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Angel Faith Friendship Night
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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God Heaven Number People World
It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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God Heart Love Time
The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to vomit its impurities upon the earth.
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Earth Hell Impurity Man Person
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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Day Myself People Prison Suspend Thinking Time Worth
You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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Choice God World Yourself

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