God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Shall we all be saved? Shall we go to Heaven? Alas, my children, we do not know at all! But I tremble when I see so many souls lost these days. See, they fall into Hell as leaves fall from the trees at the approach of winter.
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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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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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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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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