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 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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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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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 find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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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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If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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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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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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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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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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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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We ought to run after crosses as the miser runs after money. . . Nothing but crosses will reassure us at the Day of Judgment When that day shall come, we shall be happy in our misfortunes, proud of our humiliations, and rich in our sacrifices!
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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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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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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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