The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.
JOHN VIANNEYGod commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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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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The Devil writes down our sins – our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel’s book may be full, and the Devil’s empty.
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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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The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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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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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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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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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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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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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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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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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 saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.
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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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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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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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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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If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
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It is always springtime in the heart that loves 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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