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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Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.
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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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Our body is a vessel of corruption; it is meant for death and for the worms, nothing more! And yet we devote ourselves to satisfying it, rather than to enriching our soul, which is so great that we can conceive nothing greater – no, nothing, nothing!
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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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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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.
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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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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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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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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 first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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