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.
JOHN VIANNEYOnly after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.
More John Vianney Quotes
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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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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Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.
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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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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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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If 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.
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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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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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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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