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 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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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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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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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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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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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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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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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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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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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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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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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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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