All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
JOHN VIANNEYPrayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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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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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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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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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.
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