Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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 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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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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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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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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We ought to run after crosses as the miser runs after money. . . Nothing but crosses will reassure us at the Day of Judgment When that day shall come, we shall be happy in our misfortunes, proud of our humiliations, and rich in our sacrifices!
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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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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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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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When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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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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