God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
JOHN VIANNEYThe 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.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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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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Upon receiving Holy Communion, the Adorable Blood of Jesus Christ really flows in our veins and His Flesh is really blended with ours.
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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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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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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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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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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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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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.
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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to 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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