We ought to run after crosses as the miser runs after money. . . Nothing but crosses will reassure us at the Day of Judgment When that day shall come, we shall be happy in our misfortunes, proud of our humiliations, and rich in our sacrifices!
JOHN VIANNEYThe 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.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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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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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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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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There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!
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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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The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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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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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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When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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