It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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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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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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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I 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.
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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Upon receiving Holy Communion, the Adorable Blood of Jesus Christ really flows in our veins and His Flesh is really blended with ours.
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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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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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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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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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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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If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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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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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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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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