If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.
JOHN VIANNEYThere were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
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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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The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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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.
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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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.
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Our Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them.
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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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