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.
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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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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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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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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When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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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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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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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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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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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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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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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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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 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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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