John Vianney Quotes
There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.
The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.
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.
If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.
The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.
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.
The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.
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.
If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.
Upon receiving Holy Communion, the Adorable Blood of Jesus Christ really flows in our veins and His Flesh is really blended with ours.
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 exalt.
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.
The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.
When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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.
We ought to ask the Blessed Virgin, the angels, and the saints to pray for us that we may receive the good God as worthily as it is possible for us to receive him.
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.
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 while in the night to pray!
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.
If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.
There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!
Have you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give to the poor some alms which will exceed the profit you have made.
