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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.
When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.
The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.
The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.
Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.
When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.
If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.
There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!
The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.
Upon receiving Holy Communion, the Adorable Blood of Jesus Christ really flows in our veins and His Flesh is really blended with ours.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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!
Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there: If you set it on fire it makes a lot of little flames. But gather these straws into a bundle and light them, and you get a mighty fire, rising like a column into the sky; public prayer is like that.
Put a good bunch of grapes under the winepress, and a delicious juice will come out. Under the winepress of the cross, our soul produces a juice that feeds and strengthens us. When we haven't got any crosses, we are dry. If we carry them with resignation, what happiness, what sweetness we feel!
Yes, my dear children, everything is good and precious in God's sight when we act from the motives of religion and of charity because Jesus Christ tells us that a glass of water would not go unrewarded. You see, therefore, my children, that although we may be quite poor, we can still easily give alms.
A pure soul is like a fine pearl. As long as it is hidden in the shell, at the bottom of the sea, no one thinks of admiring it. But if you bring it into the sunshine, this pearl will shine and attract all eyes. Thus the pure soul, which is hidden from the eyes of the world, will one day shine before the Angels in the sunshine of eternity.
On the Way of the Cross, you see, my children, only the first step is painful. Our greatest cross is the fear of crosses. . . We have not the courage to carry our cross, and we are very much mistaken; for, whatever we do, the cross holds us tight - we cannot escape from it. What, then, have we to lose? Why not love our crosses, and make use of them to take us to heaven?