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 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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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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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We ought to ask the Blessed Virgin, the angels, and the saints to pray for us that we may receive the good God as worthily as it is possible for us to receive him.
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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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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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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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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!
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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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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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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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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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