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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.

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
You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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Choice God World Yourself
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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Day Myself People Prison Suspend Thinking Time Worth
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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Beautiful Children Death Happiness Peace Person
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
The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.
JOHN VIANNEY

Anxiety Build Burn Carry Forgiveness God Sin Woman
A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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Heaven People Priest
If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.
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Blessing God Help Leaving Yourself
The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to vomit its impurities upon the earth.
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Earth Hell Impurity Man Person
How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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Death Live Religious Sweet
Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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Death Errors God Mistake
All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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God Offering Religious Waste
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.
JOHN VIANNEY

Books Devil Empty Sin Writing
It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
JOHN VIANNEY

God Heart Love Time
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
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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Herself Ideal Joy Sorrow Woman

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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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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