All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
JOHN VIANNEYIf 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.
More John Vianney Quotes
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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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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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When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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Oh, how I like those little mortifications that are seen by nobody, such as rising a quarter of an hour sooner, rising for a little while in the night to pray!
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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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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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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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Upon receiving Holy Communion, the Adorable Blood of Jesus Christ really flows in our veins and His Flesh is really blended with ours.
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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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If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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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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The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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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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