If we really loved the good God, we should make it our joy and happiness to come and spend a few moments to adore Him, and ask Him for the grace of forgiveness; and we should regard those moments as the happiest of our lives.
— Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
You don’t need to wallow in guilt. Wallow in the mercy of God. When you are guilty, say so to God through a confessor. Acknowledge your problems and sins. The moment you have stated them, God puts His Hand over you and you are a newborn babe.
— Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
Temptation is necessary to us to make us realise that we are nothing in ourselves. St. Augustine tells us that we should thank God as much for the sins from which He has preserved us as for those which He has had the charity to forgive us.
— Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
Our faults are like a grain of sand beside the great mountain of the mercies of the good God.
— Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
Envy is a sadness which we feel on account of the good that happens to our neighbor.
— Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
Anger never travels alone. It is always accompanied by plenty of other sins.
— Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
