See, my children, a person who is in a state of sin is always sad. Whatever he does, he is weary and disgusted with every thing; while he who is at peace with God is always happy, always joyous. . . Oh, beautiful life! Oh, beautiful death!
JOHN VIANNEYAlmighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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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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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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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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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When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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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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The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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Upon receiving Holy Communion, the Adorable Blood of Jesus Christ really flows in our veins and His Flesh is really blended with ours.
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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary – a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.
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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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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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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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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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 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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The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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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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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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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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