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.
JOHN VIANNEYIf you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.
More John Vianney Quotes
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It is always springtime in the heart that loves 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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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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When 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.
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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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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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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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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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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 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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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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