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.
JOHN VIANNEYThere is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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.
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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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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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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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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.
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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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The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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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 saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.
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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.
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