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.
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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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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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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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary – a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.
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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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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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When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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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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