You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
JOHN VIANNEYDo not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
More John Vianney Quotes
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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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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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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I thought a time would come when people would rout me out of Ars with sticks, when the Bishop would suspend me, and I should end my days in prison. I see, however, that I am not worthy of such a grace.
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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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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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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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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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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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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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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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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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