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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
John Vianney
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John Vianney
Age: 73 †
Born: 1786
Born: May 8
Died: 1859
Died: August 4
Catholic Priest
Franciscan Tertiary
Parish Priest
Curé of Ars
Jean-Marie-Baptiste Vianney
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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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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.
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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.
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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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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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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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The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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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 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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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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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.
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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 you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.
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A pure soul is like a fine pearl. As long as it is hidden in the shell, at the bottom of the sea, no one thinks of admiring it. But if you bring it into the sunshine, this pearl will shine and attract all eyes. Thus the pure soul, which is hidden from the eyes of the world, will one day shine before the Angels in the sunshine of eternity.
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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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