You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
JOHN VIANNEYYou either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
JOHN VIANNEYThe Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.
JOHN VIANNEYSee, 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 VIANNEYHow happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
JOHN VIANNEYUnderstand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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.
JOHN VIANNEYThe 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.
JOHN VIANNEYThere is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
JOHN VIANNEYIf 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.
JOHN VIANNEYOn this path, it is only the first step that counts.
JOHN VIANNEYSin is the assassin of the soul.
JOHN VIANNEYHow sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
JOHN VIANNEYThe virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
JOHN VIANNEYIf only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
JOHN VIANNEYHave 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.
JOHN VIANNEYIf 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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