Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
JOHN VIANNEYTo serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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I thought a time would come when people would rout me out of Ars with sticks, when the Bishop would suspend me, and I should end my days in prison. I see, however, that I am not worthy of such a grace.
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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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.
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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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 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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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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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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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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