John Vianney: Aphorisms from his sermons on what you can offer to God

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“How beautiful, how great, to know, to love, to serve God. We have nothing but that to do in this world. Anything whatever that we do apart from that is a waste of time…Here is a rule of conduct: Do only what you can offer to God.”

“We have nothing of our own but our will. It is the only thing that God has so placed in our own power that we can make an offering of it to him.”

St. John Vianney as cited by George William Rutler in St. John Vianney: The Cure d’Ars today (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1988) 153; and Bert Ghezzi in Voices of the Saints: A Year of Readings (New York: Image Doubleday, 2000) 398.