Sin is the assassin of the soul.
JOHN VIANNEYIf people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.
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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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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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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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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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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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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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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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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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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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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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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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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