43 Quotes by John Vianney

On this path, it is only the first step that counts.

All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.

God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.

To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.

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.

How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!

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.

Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.