If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
JOHN VIANNEYIf only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
JOHN VIANNEYHow sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
JOHN VIANNEYThere were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!
JOHN VIANNEYThe Devil writes down our sins – our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel’s book may be full, and the Devil’s empty.
JOHN VIANNEYShall 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.
JOHN VIANNEYOur 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!
JOHN VIANNEYIt is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
JOHN VIANNEYHave 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 VIANNEYIf 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.
JOHN VIANNEYIf you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.
JOHN VIANNEYWe 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 Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.
JOHN VIANNEYSee, my children, a person who is in a state of sin is always sad. Whatever he does, he is weary and disgusted with every thing; while he who is at peace with God is always happy, always joyous. . . Oh, beautiful life! Oh, beautiful death!
JOHN VIANNEYWhen we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
JOHN VIANNEYA priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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