Quotes from 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 souls.

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.

Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity.

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?