Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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!
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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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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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When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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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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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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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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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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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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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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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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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 first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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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.
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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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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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