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.
JOHN VIANNEYAlmighty God sends no trial without consolation.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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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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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 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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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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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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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