If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.
JOHN VIANNEYI 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.
More John Vianney Quotes
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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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Our Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them.
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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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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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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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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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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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!
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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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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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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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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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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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