black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.

John Vianney

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!
JOHN VIANNEY

Beautiful Children Death Happiness Peace Person
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

Earth Hell Impurity Man Person
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

Angel Blessing God Goodness Himself Possible Worth
Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
JOHN VIANNEY

God Public Try Yourself
Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.
JOHN VIANNEY

Busy Children Herself Judgement Mary
Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
JOHN VIANNEY

Pay Understand Yourself
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

Angel Faith Friendship Night
When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
JOHN VIANNEY

Envelope Holy Love Soul
Shall we all be saved? Shall we go to Heaven? Alas, my children, we do not know at all! But I tremble when I see so many souls lost these days. See, they fall into Hell as leaves fall from the trees at the approach of winter.
JOHN VIANNEY

Children Fall Heaven Hell Myself Save Tree Tremble Winter
The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
JOHN VIANNEY

Courage Difficult Fulfill Inspirational Obedience Virtue Work
Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
JOHN VIANNEY

Love Prayer Soul
When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.
JOHN VIANNEY

God Heart Help Love Purity Simplicity
The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.
JOHN VIANNEY

Anxiety Build Burn Carry Forgiveness God Sin Woman
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.
JOHN VIANNEY

Attachment Earth Life Necessary Punishment
There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
JOHN VIANNEY

God Greatness Ourselves Precious
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 VIANNEY

Myself Night Prayer Rise See

The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More John Vianney Quotes