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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .

John Vianney

We ought to run after crosses as the miser runs after money. . . Nothing but crosses will reassure us at the Day of Judgment When that day shall come, we shall be happy in our misfortunes, proud of our humiliations, and rich in our sacrifices!
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Judgement Misery Money Ourselves Rich Run Sacrifice
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
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
When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.
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God Heart Help Love Purity Simplicity
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
On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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Count Path Step
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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Beautiful Children Death Happiness Peace Person
Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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Death Errors God Mistake
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
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
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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Blessing Fall Humility Side
Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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Death One Liner Sin Soul
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
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
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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Busy Children Herself Judgement Mary
Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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Pay Understand Yourself

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