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.
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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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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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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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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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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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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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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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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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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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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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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