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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!

John Vianney

Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
JOHN VIANNEY

Pay Understand Yourself
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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Money Necessary Poor Profit Work Yourself
If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
JOHN VIANNEY

Angel Fight Ourselves See Temptation
Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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Death Errors God Mistake
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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God Heaven Number People World
The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
JOHN VIANNEY

Courage Difficult Fulfill Inspirational Obedience Virtue Work
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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Angel Blessing God Goodness Himself Possible Worth
It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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God Heart Love Time
The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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Beautiful Fragrance Purity Soul
When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary – a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.
JOHN VIANNEY

Body Experience Fragrance Holy Joy Thrill
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 VIANNEY

Blessing Fall Humility Side
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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Command Government Heaven Live Service
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!
JOHN VIANNEY

Body Corruption Death Devotion Greatness Satisfaction Soul
Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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Death One Liner Sin Soul
All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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God Offering Religious Waste
You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
JOHN VIANNEY

Choice God World Yourself

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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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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