If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.
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.
More John Vianney Quotes
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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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 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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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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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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!
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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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The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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