The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
JOHN VIANNEYThe first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
JOHN VIANNEYAlmighty God sends no trial without consolation.
JOHN VIANNEYHow happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
JOHN VIANNEYThere is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
JOHN VIANNEYHumility 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 VIANNEYWhen 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.
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.
JOHN VIANNEYThe Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.
JOHN VIANNEYOur Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them.
JOHN VIANNEYUpon receiving Holy Communion, the Adorable Blood of Jesus Christ really flows in our veins and His Flesh is really blended with ours.
JOHN VIANNEYOh, 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 VIANNEYSee, 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!
JOHN VIANNEYGod commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
JOHN VIANNEYIf people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.
JOHN VIANNEYSin is the assassin of the soul.
JOHN VIANNEYWe ought to run after crosses as the miser runs after money. . . Nothing but crosses will reassure us at the Day of Judgment When that day shall come, we shall be happy in our misfortunes, proud of our humiliations, and rich in our sacrifices!
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