A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
JOHN VIANNEYWhen 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.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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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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If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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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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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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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 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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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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The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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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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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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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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The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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