How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
JOHN VIANNEYOur Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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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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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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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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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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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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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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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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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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The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.
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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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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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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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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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