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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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Have 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.
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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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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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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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There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!
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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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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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