You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
JOHN VIANNEYTo serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself of all that is not absolutely necessary for life.
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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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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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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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Humility 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.
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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.
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The 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.
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The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.
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The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.
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Christian 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.
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Upon receiving Holy Communion, the Adorable Blood of Jesus Christ really flows in our veins and His Flesh is really blended with ours.
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