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!
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
-
-
Sin is the assassin of the soul.
JOHN VIANNEY -
When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.
JOHN VIANNEY -
You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
JOHN VIANNEY -
The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to vomit its impurities upon the earth.
JOHN VIANNEY -
If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.
JOHN VIANNEY -
Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.
JOHN VIANNEY -
Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
JOHN VIANNEY -
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.
JOHN VIANNEY -
Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
JOHN VIANNEY -
The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.
JOHN VIANNEY -
There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!
JOHN VIANNEY -
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.
JOHN VIANNEY -
If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.
JOHN VIANNEY -
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.
JOHN VIANNEY -
There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
JOHN VIANNEY