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.
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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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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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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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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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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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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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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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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 virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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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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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 is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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