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.
JOHN VIANNEYA priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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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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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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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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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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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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If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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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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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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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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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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