Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
JOHN VIANNEYI thought a time would come when people would rout me out of Ars with sticks, when the Bishop would suspend me, and I should end my days in prison. I see, however, that I am not worthy of such a grace.
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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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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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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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 saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.
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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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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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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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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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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself of all that is not absolutely necessary for life.
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