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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 Vianney

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

Myself Night Prayer Rise See
Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
JOHN VIANNEY

Death Errors God Mistake
If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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Goodness Impossible Prayer Yourself
A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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Heaven People Priest
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
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
All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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God Offering Religious Waste
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 VIANNEY

Attachment Earth Life Necessary Punishment
The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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Angel Conscious God Imitation Presence
How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
JOHN VIANNEY

Death Live Religious Sweet
Upon receiving Holy Communion, the Adorable Blood of Jesus Christ really flows in our veins and His Flesh is really blended with ours.
JOHN VIANNEY

Blood Connection God Holy Ourselves
Shall 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.
JOHN VIANNEY

Children Fall Heaven Hell Myself Save Tree Tremble Winter
When our hands have touched spices, they give fragrance to all they handle. Let us make our prayers pass through the hands of the Blessed Virgin. She will make them fragrant.
JOHN VIANNEY

Blessing Fragrance Hands Herself Prayer Touch
Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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Pay Understand Yourself
There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
JOHN VIANNEY

God Greatness Ourselves Precious
If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.
JOHN VIANNEY

Blessing God Help Leaving Yourself

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.

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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.

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