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. John Vianney More Quotes by John Vianney More Quotes From John Vianney 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. John Vianney purity-and-love catholic men 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. John Vianney angel writing book 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 through envy, envying our glory, our happiness. Why do we envy the happiness and the goods of others? Because we are proud; we should like to be the sole possessors of talents, riches, of the esteem and love of all the world! We hate our equals, because they are our equals; our inferiors, from the fear that they may equal us; our superiors, because they are above us. John Vianney hate pride children The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God. John Vianney consciousness angel firsts We ought to run after crosses as the miser runs after money. . . Nothing but crosses will reassure us at the Day of Judgment When that day shall come, we shall be happy in our misfortunes, proud of our humiliations, and rich in our sacrifices! John Vianney sacrifice proud running 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. John Vianney glasses children jesus Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children. John Vianney catholic religious children 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! John Vianney juice dry soul Upon receiving Holy Communion, the Adorable Blood of Jesus Christ really flows in our veins and His Flesh is really blended with ours. John Vianney adorable blood jesus How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass! John Vianney guardian angel soul Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself. John Vianney baths soul prayer 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. John Vianney sacrifice body joy 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. John Vianney grace suffering people 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. John Vianney blessed prayer hands Sin is the assassin of the soul. John Vianney assassins sin soul If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven. John Vianney christian numbers people When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee. John Vianney sacrifice flower soul 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! John Vianney rising suffering night How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross! John Vianney dies crosses sweet 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! John Vianney attachment body soul
