Life of St John Vianney.pdf - the Catholic Kingdom!

""When"The"""The""When"We"The262 THE CUR or AR?They live on their earnings, they can gain no more ;whilewe can add something each moment to our treasure.It isThe grace of God helps us to walk, and sustains us.as necessary to us as crutches to the lame.we go to confession, we must fully understand what we are going to do. We are going to takeWhen you have made aour Lord down from the cross.good confession, you have chained up the devil.sins which we hide will all appear again. Ifwe want to hide them well, we must confess them well.Our faults are like a grain of sand by the side ofthe great mountain of God smercy.I know no one so much to be pitied as these poorpeople of the world ; they have a mantle lined withthorns upon their shoulders, they cannot move withoutpricking themselves while ; good Christians wear a cloaklined with rabbit-skins.good Christian cares nothing for the goods ofthis world. He escapes from them as a rat from thewater.Unhappily we do not keep our hearts sufficientlypure and free from all earthly affections. Take a spongewhich isvery dry and very clean ; plunge it into water,and it will be filled to overflowing ; but if it is not dryand clean, it will absorb nothing. And so, when theheart is not free and disengaged from the things ofearth, try as we may to plunge it in prayer,absorb nothing.it willwe give ourselves up to our passions, wetwine thorns around our heart.are like moles of a week old : no sooner do wesee the light, than we bury ourselves in the ground.devil keeps us amused till our last moment, aa