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.
JOHN VIANNEYPrayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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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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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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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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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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The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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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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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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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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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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