John Vianney Quotes

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.
JOHN VIANNEY

Children Fall Heaven Hell Myself Save Tree Tremble Winter
All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
JOHN VIANNEY

God Offering Religious Waste
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.
JOHN VIANNEY

Angel Faith Friendship Night
Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
JOHN VIANNEY

God Public Try Yourself
Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.
JOHN VIANNEY

Busy Children Herself Judgement Mary
If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
JOHN VIANNEY

Goodness Impossible Prayer Yourself
A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
JOHN VIANNEY

Heaven People Priest
How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
JOHN VIANNEY

Accompany Angel Happiness Holy
We ought to run after crosses as the miser runs after money. . . Nothing but crosses will reassure us at the Day of Judgment When that day shall come, we shall be happy in our misfortunes, proud of our humiliations, and rich in our sacrifices!
JOHN VIANNEY

Judgement Misery Money Ourselves Rich Run Sacrifice
You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
JOHN VIANNEY

Choice God World Yourself
See, my children, a person who is in a state of sin is always sad. Whatever he does, he is weary and disgusted with every thing; while he who is at peace with God is always happy, always joyous. . . Oh, beautiful life! Oh, beautiful death!
JOHN VIANNEY

Beautiful Children Death Happiness Peace Person
When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.
JOHN VIANNEY

God Heart Help Love Purity Simplicity
On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
JOHN VIANNEY

Count Path Step
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.
JOHN VIANNEY

Earth Hell Impurity Man Person
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.
JOHN VIANNEY

Blessing Fragrance Hands Herself Prayer Touch
It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
JOHN VIANNEY

God Heart Love Time
If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
JOHN VIANNEY

Angel Fight Ourselves See Temptation
The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.
JOHN VIANNEY

Bitter Deserve Forgiveness God Hate Offend

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