If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.
JOHN VIANNEYDo not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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Christian wife! Follow in the footsteps of the ideal of all womanhood, the Blessed Mother of God; in joy and in sorrow, she will be your advocate at the throne of her Son.
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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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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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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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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