Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
JOHN VIANNEYWhen our hands have touched spices, they give fragrance to all they handle. Let us make our prayers pass through the hands of the Blessed Virgin. She will make them fragrant.
More John Vianney Quotes
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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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When our hands have touched spices, they give fragrance to all they handle. Let us make our prayers pass through the hands of the Blessed Virgin. She will make them fragrant.
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We ought to ask the Blessed Virgin, the angels, and the saints to pray for us that we may receive the good God as worthily as it is possible for us to receive him.
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The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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We ought to run after crosses as the miser runs after money. . . Nothing but crosses will reassure us at the Day of Judgment When that day shall come, we shall be happy in our misfortunes, proud of our humiliations, and rich in our sacrifices!
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If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.
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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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Christian wife! Follow in the footsteps of the ideal of all womanhood, the Blessed Mother of God; in joy and in sorrow, she will be your advocate at the throne of her Son.
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I thought a time would come when people would rout me out of Ars with sticks, when the Bishop would suspend me, and I should end my days in prison. I see, however, that I am not worthy of such a grace.
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Our Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them.
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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to vomit its impurities upon the earth.
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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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