Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
JOHN VIANNEYIf people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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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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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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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When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.
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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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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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We 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.
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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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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 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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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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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.
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