If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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 we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary – a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.
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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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To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.
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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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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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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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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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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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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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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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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