God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
JOHN VIANNEYThe saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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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.
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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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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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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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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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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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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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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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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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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The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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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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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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