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Jean Baptiste Massillon Quotes: Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work of piety accomplished?
         

Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work of piety accomplished?


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To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.

To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.



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God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls.



We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.

We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.



Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice.

Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice.



Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts.

Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts.



Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in concealing from ourselves.

Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in concealing from ourselves.



There are some sins which are more justly to be denominated surprises than infidelities. To such the world should be lenient, as, doubtless, Heaven is forgiving.

There are some sins which are more justly to be denominated surprises than infidelities. To such the world should be lenient, as, doubtless, Heaven is forgiving.



Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity.

Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity.



Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.

Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.



Every Christian is born great because he is born for heaven.

Every Christian is born great because he is born for heaven.





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I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford.

I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford.



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