When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.
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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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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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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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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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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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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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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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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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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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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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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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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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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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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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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If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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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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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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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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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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