The World is
Everything and God is Nothing!
If
people would do for god what they do for the world, my dear people, what a
great number of Christians would go to Heaven! But if you, dear children, had
to pass three or four hours praying in a church, as you pass them at a dance or
in a cabaret, how heavily the time would press upon you! If you had to go to a
great many different places in order to hear a sermon, as you go for your
pastimes or to satisfy your avarice and greed, what pretexts there would be,
and how many detours would be taken to avoid going at all. But nothing is too
much trouble when done for the world. What is more, people are not afraid of
losing either God or their souls or Heaven. With what good reason did Jesus
Christ, my dear people, say that the children of this world are more zealous in
serving their master, the world, than the children of light are in serving
theirs, who is God. To our shame, we must admit that people fear neither
expense, nor even going into debt, when it is a matter of satisfying their pleasures,
but if some poor person asks them for help, they have nothing at all. This is
true of so many: they have everything for the world and nothing at all for God
because to them, the world is everything and God is nothing.
By St. John Vianney
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