To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.
JOHN VIANNEYIf people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.
More John Vianney Quotes
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Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.
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The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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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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I 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.
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