Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
JOHN VIANNEYHave 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.
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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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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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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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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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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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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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 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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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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The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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