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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.

John Vianney

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John Vianney
Age: 73 †
Born: 1786
Born: May 8
Died: 1859
Died: August 4
Catholic Priest
Franciscan Tertiary
Parish Priest
Curé of Ars
Jean-Marie-Baptiste Vianney
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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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Yes, my dear children, everything is good and precious in God's sight when we act from the motives of religion and of charity because Jesus Christ tells us that a glass of water would not go unrewarded. You see, therefore, my children, that although we may be quite poor, we can still easily give alms.
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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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Put a good bunch of grapes under the winepress, and a delicious juice will come out. Under the winepress of the cross, our soul produces a juice that feeds and strengthens us. When we haven't got any crosses, we are dry. If we carry them with resignation, what happiness, what sweetness we feel!
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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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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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If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.
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The saints had no hatred, no bitterness they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.
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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 thinks of admiring it. But if you bring it into the sunshine, this pearl will shine and attract all eyes. Thus the pure soul, which is hidden from the eyes of the world, will one day shine before the Angels in the sunshine of eternity.
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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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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.
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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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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.
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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.
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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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