On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
JOHN VIANNEYOnly after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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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If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.
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Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.
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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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