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.
JOHN VIANNEYOn this path, it is only the first step that counts.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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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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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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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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Our body is a vessel of corruption; it is meant for death and for the worms, nothing more! And yet we devote ourselves to satisfying it, rather than to enriching our soul, which is so great that we can conceive nothing greater – no, nothing, nothing!
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