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? — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of the necessities… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
Our acts of kindness we reserve for our friends, our bounties for our dependants, our riches for our children and relations, our praises for… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions,… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in concealing from… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
Yes, great God, these torrents of tears which flow down from my eyes announce thy divine presence in my soul. This heart hitherto so… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines. — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his own vain… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
Charity is that sweet-smelling savor of Jesus Christ, which vanishes and is extinguished from the moment that it is exposed. — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
There are some sins which are more justly to be denominated surprises than infidelities. To such the world should be lenient, as, doubtless, Heaven… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
