Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
JOHN VIANNEYWe 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.
More John Vianney Quotes
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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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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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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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The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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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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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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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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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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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