A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
JOHN VIANNEYA priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
JOHN VIANNEYThe Devil writes down our sins – our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel’s book may be full, and the Devil’s empty.
JOHN VIANNEYAlmighty God sends no trial without consolation.
JOHN VIANNEYWhen 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.
JOHN VIANNEYThe 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 VIANNEYOur 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 VIANNEYPrayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
JOHN VIANNEYSin is the assassin of the soul.
JOHN VIANNEYIf people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.
JOHN VIANNEYThere were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!
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 VIANNEYIf you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.
JOHN VIANNEYThere is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
JOHN VIANNEYThe pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
JOHN VIANNEYWhen we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
JOHN VIANNEYChristian wife! Follow in the footsteps of the ideal of all womanhood, the Blessed Mother of God; in joy and in sorrow, she will be your advocate at the throne of her Son.
JOHN VIANNEY