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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!

John Vianney

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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Attachment Earth Life Necessary Punishment
If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.
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Blessing God Help Leaving Yourself
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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Myself Night Prayer Rise See
The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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Courage Difficult Fulfill Inspirational Obedience Virtue Work
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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Anxiety Build Burn Carry Forgiveness God Sin Woman
When our hands have touched spices, they give fragrance to all they handle. Let us make our prayers pass through the hands of the Blessed Virgin. She will make them fragrant.
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Blessing Fragrance Hands Herself Prayer Touch
How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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Death Live Religious Sweet
Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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God Public Try Yourself
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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Clothes Comfortable Desert
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
Shall we all be saved? Shall we go to Heaven? Alas, my children, we do not know at all! But I tremble when I see so many souls lost these days. See, they fall into Hell as leaves fall from the trees at the approach of winter.
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Children Fall Heaven Hell Myself Save Tree Tremble Winter
Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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Death Errors God Mistake
God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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Command God Prayer Worry Yourself
When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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Envelope Holy Love Soul
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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Bitter Deserve Forgiveness God Hate Offend
All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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God Offering Religious Waste

How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!

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