If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.
JOHN VIANNEYIf people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.
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.
JOHN VIANNEYHow happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
JOHN VIANNEYOnly after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.
JOHN VIANNEYHow sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
JOHN VIANNEYPrayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
JOHN VIANNEYIf only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
JOHN VIANNEYAll that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
JOHN VIANNEYGod commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
JOHN VIANNEYUpon receiving Holy Communion, the Adorable Blood of Jesus Christ really flows in our veins and His Flesh is really blended with ours.
JOHN VIANNEYThe virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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 VIANNEYIt is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
JOHN VIANNEYWhen our hands have touched spices, they give fragrance to all they handle. Let us make our prayers pass through the hands of the Blessed Virgin. She will make them fragrant.
JOHN VIANNEYTo 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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