I tell you that you have less to suffer in following the cross than in serving the world and its pleasures.

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"The saints did not all begin well, but they ended well."

- St. John Vianney

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"The priesthood is the love of the Heart of Jesus."

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"You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God."

- St. John Vianney

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"Our errors are grains of sand beside the great mountain of God’s mercy."

- St. John Vianney

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"Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself."

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"Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done."

- Unknown

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"He that can have patience can have what he will."

- Benjamin Franklin

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"You just can’t beat the person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

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- James Dyson

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"Never give up because great things take time."

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