John Vianney Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Yes, my dear children, everything is good and precious in God's sight when we act from the motives of religion and of charity because Jesus Christ tells us that a glass of water would not go unrewarded. You see, therefore, my children, that although we may be quite poor, we can still easily give alms.

  John Vianney

  Jesus, Children, Glasses

• 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.

  John Vianney

  Prayer, Blessed, Hands

• 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.

  John Vianney

  Giving, Earth, Alms

• Have you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give to the poor some alms which will exceed the profit you have made.

  John Vianney

  Sunday, Holy Days, Giving

• Others will give away large alms in order to be considered charitable people. Should they not give these out of their own wages, which so often they squander on trifles? If this has happened to you, do not forget that you are obliged to pay back to the person concerned all that you gave to the poor without the knowledge or consent of your employers. Then again, there is the one who has been entrusted by his employer with the supervision of the staff, or of workmen, who gives out wine and all sorts of other things to them if they ask him.

  John Vianney

  Wine, Order, People

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

  John Vianney

  Giving, Pay, Alms

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