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We ought to love the Blessed Virgin very much.
- The Cure d'Ars and La Salette (M.)
WHAT joy it is to know that when we go out of the house,
we are never alone en route.
- Sermon for the Feast of the Guardian Angels.
ALL Jesus Christ did, He did for us. His prayers, His tears,
His watchings, His fasting, His preaching, His journeys,
His conversations, His miracles - - all those were for us.
- Sermon on Love for God.
I OFTEN think that the life of some poor employee who knows
no will but that of others may be - - if only she knows how to
profit by it - - quite as agreeable to God as that of a religious
who is always confronted with her rule.
- Mortification of the Cure d'Ars (M.)
We must take care not to get slack . . . We ought always
to be going from strength to strength . . . .
- Sermon on False and True Goodness
EVERY evening think over what you have done during the day,
and each month over the month, and each year over the year.
Thus you cannot fail to correct yourself and when death comes
you will be ready and happy to go to Heaven.
- On Death (Sp.)
IT is only God that can fill the soul.
- Of Holy Communion (M.)
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THE sun never hides his light for fear of inconveniencing the owls.
- Maxim (M.)
OUR Lord carried His Cross - - surely I can do as He did.
- Saying - Patience of the Cure d'Ars (T.)
DO not distrust the Providence of God. He who made your corn
to grow will assuredly help to gather it in.
- Maxim (M.)
WHEN we receive Holy Communion, we receive our joy and
our happiness.
- Catechism on Communion (Sp.)
WE must take great care never to do anything before having said
our Morning Prayers . . . . The devil once declared . . . that if he
could have the first moment of the day, he was sure of all the rest.
- Sermon on the First Commandment.
"GOD," said the Cure d'Ars, "has shown me this great mercy, that
He has given me nothing on which I could rely, neither talent, nor
wisdom, nor knowledge, nor strength, nor virtue.
"When tempted to despair I have only one resource: to throw myself
at the foot of the Tabernacle like a little dog at the feet of his master."
- Interior Life of the Cure d'Ars (M.)
TO possess God, that is the joy of joys.
- On the Joys of the Interior Life (Sp.)