St. John Mary Vianney

Today is the feast day for St. John Vianney. He is the patron for diocesan priests. Here are some of his quotes:

Man is a beggar who needs to ask God for everything. - Saint John Vianney

All our religion is but a false religion, and all our virtues are mere illusions and we ourselves are only hypocrites in the sight of God, if we have not that universal charity for everyone – for the good, and for the bad, for the poor and for the rich, and for all those who do us harm as much as those who do us good. - Saint John Vianney

If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven. - Saint John Vianney

You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God. - Saint John Vianney

I tell you that you have less to suffer in following the Cross than in serving the world and its pleasures. - Saint John Vianney

You cannot please both God and the world at the same time, They are utterly opposed to each other in their thoughts, their desires, and their actions. - Saint John Vianney

We must always choose the most perfect. Two good works present themselves to be done, one in favour of a person we love, the other in favour of a person who has done us some harm. Well, we must give preference to the latter. - Saint John Vianney

We should consider those moments spent before the Blessed Sacrament as the happiest of our lives. - Saint John Vianney