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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.
John Vianney
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John Vianney
Age: 73 †
Born: 1786
Born: May 8
Died: 1859
Died: August 4
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Franciscan Tertiary
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Curé of Ars
Jean-Marie-Baptiste Vianney
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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there: If you set it on fire it makes a lot of little flames. But gather these straws into a bundle and light them, and you get a mighty fire, rising like a column into the sky public prayer is like that.
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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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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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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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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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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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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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It is always springtime in the heart that loves 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 first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of 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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