If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.
JOHN VIANNEYOur 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!
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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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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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary – a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.
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Oh, 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!
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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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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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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 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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