"Understand this clearly: if you know how to……" — John Vianney

"Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . ."

— John Vianney

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32 Quotes by John Vianney

John Vianney has 32 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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

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More Alms Quotes

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There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or… — Lord Acton
Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather… — Rebecca West
The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt. — Ambrose
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
By our little acts of charity practiced in the shade we convert souls far away, we help missionaries, we win… — Therese of Lisieux
Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and… — Walter Benjamin
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they… — Ben Hecht
This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone… — Walt Whitman
Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust;… — Unknown Author
The faith of those who live their faith is a serene faith. What you long for will be given you;… — Pope Leo I

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