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.
JOHN VIANNEYUpon receiving Holy Communion, the Adorable Blood of Jesus Christ really flows in our veins and His Flesh is really blended with ours.
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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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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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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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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The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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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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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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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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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