Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.
JOHN VIANNEYOn this path, it is only the first step that counts.
More John Vianney Quotes
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I thought a time would come when people would rout me out of Ars with sticks, when the Bishop would suspend me, and I should end my days in prison. I see, however, that I am not worthy of such a grace.
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Christian wife! Follow in the footsteps of the ideal of all womanhood, the Blessed Mother of God; in joy and in sorrow, she will be your advocate at the throne of her Son.
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Upon receiving Holy Communion, the Adorable Blood of Jesus Christ really flows in our veins and His Flesh is really blended with ours.
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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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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To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.
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When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary – a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.
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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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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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Shall we all be saved? Shall we go to Heaven? Alas, my children, we do not know at all! But I tremble when I see so many souls lost these days. See, they fall into Hell as leaves fall from the trees at the approach of winter.
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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.
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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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If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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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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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.
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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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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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When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.
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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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We ought to ask the Blessed Virgin, the angels, and the saints to pray for us that we may receive the good God as worthily as it is possible for us to receive him.
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