If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.
JOHN VIANNEYWe 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!
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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See, 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!
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.
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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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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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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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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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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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When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.
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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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