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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.
- On the Sixth Commandment (C.)
OUR prayer is an incense which God receives with
extreme pleasure.
- Catechism on Prayer (Sp.)
DO not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the Angels,
and the Saints. - - they are your public.
- Advice to two Writers (D.)
HAPPY is he that lives to love, receive and serve God!
- On the Lord's Prayer (C.)
WE should daily renew our baptismal vows.
- On the Joys of the Interior Spirit (Sp.)
YOU do not know the resources of God's providence for those
who put their trust in Him.
- Eucharistic Meditation 25.
THE saints love everyone . . . . Their hearts, inflamed with Divine
love, are dilated in proportion to the number of souls that God
puts in their way.
[i]- On the Joys of the Interior Life (Sp.)[/i]
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WITH what humility should we assist at Mass, if we realized that our Guardian Angel
was kneeling beside us, prostrate before the Majesty of God! With what eagerness should
we not ask him to offer our prayers to Jesus Christ!
- Sermon on the Feat of the Guardian Angel
WHEN God sees us coming to Him in prayer, He leans His Heart down very low to His
little creature, like a father who bends down to listen to his child when it speaks to him.
- Catechetical Illustration from Nature (M.)
IF the Saints were asked: "Why are you in Heaven?" they would answer: "For having
listened to the Holy Ghost."
- Catechism on the Holy Ghost (Sp.)
WE must say many prayers for the souls of the Faithful Departed, for one must be so
pure to enter Heaven!
- On Love for our Neighbor (C.)
PRIDE makes us hate our equals, because they are our equals; our inferiors, from the
fear that they may equal us; our superiors because they are above us.
- On Envy (Sp.)
IF I make God to reign in my heart, He will make make to reign with Him in His glory.
- Catechism on Prayer (M.)