When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.

- John Vianney

A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.

- John Vianney

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

- John Vianney

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

- John Vianney

It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.

- John Vianney

If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.

- John Vianney

There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.

- John Vianney

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

- John Vianney

The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.

- John Vianney