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.
JOHN VIANNEYOur Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them.
More John Vianney Quotes
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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.
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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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 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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The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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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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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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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.
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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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The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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