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!
JOHN VIANNEYThere is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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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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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 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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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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I thought a time would come when people would rout me out of Ars with sticks, when the Bishop would suspend me, and I should end my days in prison. I see, however, that I am not worthy of such a grace.
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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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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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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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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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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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