How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
JOHN VIANNEYOh, 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!
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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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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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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When our hands have touched spices, they give fragrance to all they handle. Let us make our prayers pass through the hands of the Blessed Virgin. She will make them fragrant.
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The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of 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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The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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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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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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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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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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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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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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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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