John Vianney Quotes

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• My little children, your hearts, are small, but prayer stretches them and makes them capable of loving God. Through prayer we receive a foretaste of…
• Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there: If you set it on fire it makes a lot of little flames. But gather these…
• Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
• 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…
• There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
• When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
• The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.
• If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.
• Envy, my children, follows pride; whoever is envious is proud. See, envy comes to us from Hell; the devils having sinned through pride, sinned also…
• You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
• 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…
• A pure soul is like a fine pearl. As long as it is hidden in the shell, at the bottom of the sea, no one…
• The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
• 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…
• On the Way of the Cross, you see, my children, only the first step is painful. Our greatest cross is the fear of crosses. .…
• Oh, how I like those little mortifications that are seen by nobody, such as rising a quarter of an hour sooner, rising for a little…
• On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
• We put pride into everything like salt. We like to see that our good works are known. If our virtues are seen, we are pleased;…
• 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…
• God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.

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