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“Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice.”

Quote by Jean Baptiste Massillon

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Jean Baptiste Massillon

Jean Baptiste Massillon was a French theologian and writer, active in the early 18th century. He was known for his sermons and literary works, which were influential in the French church. more

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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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“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.”

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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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Book:Sermons of John-Baptist Massillon, Bishop of Clermon, to which is prefixed the life of the author, from the last London edition

Source: Sermons of John-Baptist Massillon, Bishop of Clermon, to which is prefixed the life of the author, from the last London edition

“I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of the necessities laid open to it.”

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Author:Jean Baptiste Massillon

“True charity is liable to excesses and transports.”

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

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Book:Sermons

Source: Sermons

“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.”

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Book:Sermons

Source: Sermons

“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.”

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Author:Jean Baptiste Massillon

“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.”

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Author:Jean Baptiste Massillon

“Our acts of kindness we reserve for our friends, our bounties for our dependants, our riches for our children and relations, our praises for those who appear worthy of them, our time we give all to the world; we expose it, I may say, a prey to all mankind.”

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Book:Sermons

Source: Sermons