Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
JOHN VIANNEYThere is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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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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If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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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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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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The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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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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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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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Humility 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.
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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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