There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
JOHN VIANNEYIf you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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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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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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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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If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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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 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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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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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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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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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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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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