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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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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 end my days in prison. I see, however, that I am not worthy of such a grace.
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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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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 straws into a bundle and light them, and you get a mighty fire, rising like a column into the sky public prayer is like that.
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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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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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Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.
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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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There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes and we seek for nothing but comfort!
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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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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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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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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.
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