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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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The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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!
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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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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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When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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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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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 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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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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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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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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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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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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Our body is a vessel of corruption it is meant for death and for the worms, nothing more! And yet we devote ourselves to satisfying it, rather than to enriching our soul, which is so great that we can conceive nothing greater - no, nothing, nothing!
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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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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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