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!
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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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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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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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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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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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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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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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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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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Shall we all be saved? Shall we go to Heaven? Alas, my children, we do not know at all! But I tremble when I see so many souls lost these days. See, they fall into Hell as leaves fall from the trees at the approach of winter.
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Upon receiving Holy Communion, the Adorable Blood of Jesus Christ really flows in our veins and His Flesh is really blended with ours.
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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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The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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