Have you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give to the poor some alms which will exceed the profit you have made.
JOHN VIANNEY
How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
More John Vianney Quotes
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Have you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give to the poor some alms which will exceed the profit you have made.
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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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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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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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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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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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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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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 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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Christian wife! Follow in the footsteps of the ideal of all womanhood, the Blessed Mother of God; in joy and in sorrow, she will be your advocate at the throne of her Son.
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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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The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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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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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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