Our 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.
More John Vianney Quotes
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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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To 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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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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It is always springtime in the heart that loves 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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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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When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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