The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.
JOHN VIANNEYThe first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
More John Vianney Quotes
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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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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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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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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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When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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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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Our body is a vessel of corruption; it is meant for death and for the worms, nothing more! And yet we devote ourselves to satisfying it, rather than to enriching our soul, which is so great that we can conceive nothing greater – no, nothing, nothing!
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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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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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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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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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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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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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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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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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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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