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.
JOHN VIANNEYIf you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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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If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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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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The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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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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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!
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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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When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary – a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.
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If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself of all that is not absolutely necessary for life.
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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.
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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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