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

- Jean Baptiste Massillon

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

- Jean Baptiste Massillon

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

- Jean Baptiste Massillon

I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his own vain glory. He best deserves to be hea…

- Jean Baptiste Massillon

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 so…

- Jean Baptiste Massillon

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

- Jean Baptiste Massillon

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 sic…

- Jean Baptiste Massillon

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

- Jean Baptiste Massillon

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

- Jean Baptiste Massillon