Mary, Help of Christians, and the Fourteen Saints Invoked as Holy Helpers / Instructions, Novenas and Prayers with Thoughts of the Saints for Every Day in the Year; To Which is Added an Appendix on the Reasonableness of Catholic Ceremonies and Practices

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Idleness is hell's fishhook for catching souls.—ST. IGNATIUS.

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Whoever imagines himself without defect has an excess of pride. God alone is perfect.—ST. ANTONINUS.

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As we take the bitterest medicine to recover or preserve the health of the body, we should cheerfully endure sufferings, however repugnant to nature, and consider them efficacious remedies which God employs to purify the soul and conduct it to the perfection to which He called it.—ST. VINCENT DE PAUL.

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To give up prayer because we are often distracted at it is to allow the devil to gain his cause.—ST. ALPHONSUS.

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Curb the desire of display, and do nothing from human respect.—ST. VINCENT DE PAUL.

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