The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
JOHN VIANNEYThe Devil writes down our sins – our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel’s book may be full, and the Devil’s empty.
More John Vianney Quotes
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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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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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Shall we all be saved? Shall we go to Heaven? Alas, my children, we do not know at all! But I tremble when I see so many souls lost these days. See, they fall into Hell as leaves fall from the trees at the approach of winter.
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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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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 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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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The Devil writes down our sins – our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel’s book may be full, and the Devil’s empty.
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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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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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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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When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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