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.
JOHN VIANNEYA priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
More John Vianney Quotes
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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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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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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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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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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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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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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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If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.
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The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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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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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 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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