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To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.

John Vianney

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 VIANNEY

Blessing Fragrance Hands Herself Prayer Touch
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!
JOHN VIANNEY

Myself Night Prayer Rise See
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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Herself Ideal Joy Sorrow Woman
Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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Pay Understand Yourself
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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God Heart Help Love Purity Simplicity
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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Day Myself People Prison Suspend Thinking Time Worth
Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
JOHN VIANNEY

Love Prayer Soul
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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Children Fall Heaven Hell Myself Save Tree Tremble Winter
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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Angel Faith Friendship Night
To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.
JOHN VIANNEY

Command Government Heaven Live Service
Have you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give to the poor some alms which will exceed the profit you have made.
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Money Necessary Poor Profit Work Yourself
God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
JOHN VIANNEY

Command God Prayer Worry Yourself
The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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Angel Conscious God Imitation Presence
On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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Count Path Step
Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.
JOHN VIANNEY

Busy Children Herself Judgement Mary
If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
JOHN VIANNEY

Goodness Impossible Prayer Yourself

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