"If you are attached to the things of……" — John Vianney
"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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John Vianney
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32 Quotes by John Vianney
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My little children, your hearts, are small, but prayer stretches them and makes them capable of loving God. Through prayer…
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Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there: If you set it on fire it makes a lot of…
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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary - a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole…
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There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to…
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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 saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against…
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If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go…
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Envy, my children, follows pride; whoever is envious is proud. See, envy comes to us from Hell; the devils having…
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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell…
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A pure soul is like a fine pearl. As long as it is hidden in the shell, at the bottom…
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