If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
JOHN VIANNEYShall 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.
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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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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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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I thought a time would come when people would rout me out of Ars with sticks, when the Bishop would suspend me, and I should end my days in prison. I see, however, that I am not worthy of such a grace.
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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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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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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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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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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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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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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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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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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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