When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
JOHN VIANNEYThe saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.
More John Vianney Quotes
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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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Our body is a vessel of corruption; it is meant for death and for the worms, nothing more! And yet we devote ourselves to satisfying it, rather than to enriching our soul, which is so great that we can conceive nothing greater – no, nothing, nothing!
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There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
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Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.
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The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.
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Oh, how I like those little mortifications that are seen by nobody, such as rising a quarter of an hour sooner, rising for a little while in the night to pray!
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The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to vomit its impurities upon the earth.
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I thought a time would come when people would rout me out of Ars with sticks, when the Bishop would suspend me, and I should end my days in prison. I see, however, that I am not worthy of such a grace.
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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!
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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary – a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.
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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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