Jean Baptiste Massillon

(1663–1742) Catholic Priest

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Jean Baptiste Massillon was a Catholic priest, best known for Sermons de M. Massillon, évêque de Clermont.

Quick Facts About Jean Baptiste Massillon

Born: June 24, 1663
Died: September 28, 1742
Profession: Catholic Priest
Notable works: Sermons de M. Massillon, évêque de Clermont

About Jean Baptiste Massillon

Jean-Baptiste Massillon, CO, was a French Catholic prelate and famous preacher who served as Bishop of Clermont from 1717 until his death in Beauregard-l'Évêque.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Jean Baptiste Massillon

I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of…

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Charity

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Our acts of kindness we reserve for our friends, our bounties for our dependants, our riches for our children and relations, our…

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Acts of kindness

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True charity is liable to excesses and transports.

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Charity

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Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality…

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Alliances

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

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Circumstances

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Yes, great God, these torrents of tears which flow down from my eyes announce thy divine presence in my soul. This heart…

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Abundance

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

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Clergymen

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I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his…

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Deserve

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Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice.

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Advice

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We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our…

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Death

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Charity is that sweet-smelling savor of Jesus Christ, which vanishes and is extinguished from the moment that it is exposed.

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Charity

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

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Betrayal

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

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Accomplished