On the Quote "We Have No Other Business Here Than to Get to Heaven"
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“Our business is to gain heaven; everything else is a sheer waste of time.” - St. Vincent De Paul
Source: https://saintquotes.tumblr.com/post/124812336522/our-business-is-to-gain-heaven-everything-else-is
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On page 36 of "Spirit of the Curé of Ars" (Catechism on Salvation):
https://ia803207.us.archive.org/14/items/TheSpiritOfTheCureOfArs/TheSpiritOfTheCureOfArs.pdf
is found the very similar quote (since to know, love, and serve God implies salvation, which in turn, implies getting to Heaven):
"To be saved, we must know, love, and serve God. Oh, what a beautiful life! How good, how great a thing it is to know, to love and serve God! We have nothing else to do in this world. All that we do besides is lost time."
And so, analogously to the St. Vincent de Paul quote---
We have nothing else to do in this world. All that we do besides is lost time.
Perhaps, St. John Vianney spent some time reading St. Vincent de Paul.
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