A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
JOHN VIANNEYHow happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
More John Vianney Quotes
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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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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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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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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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Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.
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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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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.
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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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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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