All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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We ought to ask the Blessed Virgin, the angels, and the saints to pray for us that we may receive the good God as worthily as it is possible for us to receive him.
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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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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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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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 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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If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself of all that is not absolutely necessary for life.
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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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 sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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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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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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The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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