If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.
JOHN VIANNEYChristian 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.
More John Vianney Quotes
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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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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Oh, how I like those little mortifications that are seen by nobody, such as rising a quarter of an hour sooner, rising for a little while in the night to pray!
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There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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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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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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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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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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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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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