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.
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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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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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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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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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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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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The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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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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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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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
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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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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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