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.
JOHN VIANNEYHow happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
More John Vianney Quotes
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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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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 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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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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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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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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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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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.
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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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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The 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.
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