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 VIANNEYShall 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 VIANNEYThe pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
JOHN VIANNEYThe Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.
JOHN VIANNEYA priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
JOHN VIANNEYUnderstand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
JOHN VIANNEYYou either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
JOHN VIANNEYIt is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
JOHN VIANNEYIf people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.
JOHN VIANNEYHow sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
JOHN VIANNEYSin is the assassin of the soul.
JOHN VIANNEYPrayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
JOHN VIANNEYWhen we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
JOHN VIANNEYTo serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.
JOHN VIANNEYHave you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give to the poor some alms which will exceed the profit you have made.
JOHN VIANNEYHumility 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.
JOHN VIANNEYWe 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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