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.
JOHN VIANNEYOnly after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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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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The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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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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The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.
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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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The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to 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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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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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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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 were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!
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