Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.
JOHN VIANNEYPrayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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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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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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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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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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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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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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