John Eudes Quotes

Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great desire to begin to live thus, and beg Him to destroy in us the life of the world of sin, and to establish His life within us.

A Christian has a union with Jesus Christ more noble, more intimate and more perfect than the members of a human body have with their head.

Faith is a beam radiating from the face of God.

Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections, his desire, and his disposition live and reign there.

A man is no true Christian if he has no devotion to the Mother of Jesus Christ.

I ask you to consider that our Lord Jesus Christ is your true head and that you are a member of his body. He belongs to you as the head belongs to the body. All that is his is yours: breath, heart, body, soul and all his faculties. All of these you must use as if they belonged to you, so that in serving him you may give him praise, love and glory.

O admirable Mother of God! How many sins have I committed for which thou hast obtained pardon for me, and how many others would I have committed if thou hadst not preserved me? How often have I seen myself on the brink of Hell in obvious danger of falling into it but for thy most benign hand which saved me? How often would the Roaring Lion of Hell have devoured and swallowed up my soul had not the charity of thy heart opposed him? Alas! Without thee, my dearest and my all-good Mother, where should I be today? I should be in the fiery furnace of Hell from which I would never emerge!

God inspired in the heart of the pure Virgin Mary His own intense love for humility...It was this humility which attracted to her the countless graces which rendered her worthy to be the Mother of God, Queen of heaven and earth.

The crosses with which our path through life is strewn associate us with Jesus in the mystery of His crucifixion.

Any innovation in matters of faith is extremely pernicious and utterly damnable!

No one who shall invoke this Mother of Grace with devotion and perseverance can possibly perish forever.

Every Saint belongs to the court of the Queen of All Saints.