black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.

John Vianney

On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
JOHN VIANNEY

Count Path Step
The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
JOHN VIANNEY

Angel Conscious God Imitation Presence
The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
JOHN VIANNEY

Beautiful Fragrance Purity Soul
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!
JOHN VIANNEY

Body Corruption Death Devotion Greatness Satisfaction Soul
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.
JOHN VIANNEY

Herself Ideal Joy Sorrow Woman
Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
JOHN VIANNEY

Death Errors God Mistake
How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
JOHN VIANNEY

Death Live Religious Sweet
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!
JOHN VIANNEY

Myself Night Prayer Rise See
If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.
JOHN VIANNEY

Blessing God Help Leaving Yourself
When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
JOHN VIANNEY

Envelope Holy Love Soul
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.
JOHN VIANNEY

Day Myself People Prison Suspend Thinking Time Worth
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.
JOHN VIANNEY

Earth Hell Impurity Man Person
The 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 VIANNEY

Books Devil Empty Sin Writing
It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
JOHN VIANNEY

God Heart Love Time
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

Attachment Earth Life Necessary Punishment
God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
JOHN VIANNEY

Command God Prayer Worry Yourself

The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More John Vianney Quotes