If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.
JOHN VIANNEYThe 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.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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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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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 invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.
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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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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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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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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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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Christian wife! Follow in the footsteps of the ideal of all womanhood, the Blessed Mother of God; in joy and in sorrow, she will be your advocate at the throne of her Son.
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