The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.
JOHN VIANNEYUnderstand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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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 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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!
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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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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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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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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When 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.
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