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

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

- Jean Baptiste Massillon

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

- Jean Baptiste Massillon

True charity is liable to excesses and transports.

- 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 the necessities lai…

- 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

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

- 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 wh…

- 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