The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
JOHN VIANNEY
The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.
More John Vianney Quotes
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The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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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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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.
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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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!
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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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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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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary – a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.
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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!
JOHN VIANNEY