We ought to ask the Blessed Virgin, the angels, and the saints to pray for us that we may receive the good God as worthily as it is possible for us to receive him.
JOHN VIANNEYAlmighty God sends no trial without consolation.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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 first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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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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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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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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