Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
JOHN VIANNEYTo 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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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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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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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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