How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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 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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When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.
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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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If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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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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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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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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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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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