Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
JOHN VIANNEYUnderstand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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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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See, my children, a person who is in a state of sin is always sad. Whatever he does, he is weary and disgusted with every thing; while he who is at peace with God is always happy, always joyous. . . Oh, beautiful life! Oh, beautiful death!
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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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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Our body is a vessel of corruption; it is meant for death and for the worms, nothing more! And yet we devote ourselves to satisfying it, rather than to enriching our soul, which is so great that we can conceive nothing greater – no, nothing, nothing!
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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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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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