Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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 first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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!
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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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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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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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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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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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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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When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary – a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.
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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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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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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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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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