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.
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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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 saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.
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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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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We 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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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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Christian wife! Follow in the footsteps of the ideal of all womanhood, the Blessed Mother of God; in joy and in sorrow, she will be your advocate at the throne of her Son.
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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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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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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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