To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.
JOHN VIANNEYSee, my children, a person who is in a state of sin is always sad. Whatever he does, he is weary and disgusted with every thing; while he who is at peace with God is always happy, always joyous. . . Oh, beautiful life! Oh, beautiful death!
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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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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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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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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Have you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give to the poor some alms which will exceed the profit you have made.
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There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
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If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.
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The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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