A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
JOHN VIANNEY
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.
More John Vianney Quotes
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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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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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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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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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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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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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Our Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them.
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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 saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against 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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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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