John Vianney on angel
John Vianney45 quotes“If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!”
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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
John VianneyJohn Vianney 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.
John VianneyJohn Vianney Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
John VianneyJohn Vianney Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
John VianneyJohn Vianney How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
John VianneyJohn Vianney To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.
John VianneyJohn Vianney The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
John VianneyJohn Vianney If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.
John VianneyJohn Vianney We ought to ask the Blessed Virgin, the angels, and the saints to pray for us that we may receive the good God as worthily as it is possible for us to receive him.
John VianneyJohn Vianney If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.
John VianneyJohn Vianney There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
John VianneyJohn Vianney The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.
John VianneyJohn Vianney The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
John VianneyJohn Vianney Sin is the assassin of the soul.
John VianneyJohn Vianney The Devil writes down our sins – our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel’s book may be full, and the Devil’s empty.
John VianneyJohn Vianney When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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Don’t compare her to sunshine and roses when she’s clearly orchids and moonlight.
Melody LeeMelody Lee Oh moonlight, continue to shine on me. As you light up the sky, maybe some peace will come to me.
ShamaShama Stop counting the reasons why they should be loved and start counting the many reasons why you are the one who is worth loving.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase Sure, there are oceans and seas and magnificent things – but none of them are you.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix I wish you the wildest of dreams.
Kate WestKate West The way you look at me, The way you make me feel whole, The way you make me feel safe, thats poetry to me.
Barbara GianquittoBarbara Gianquitto You cannot leave and have me too I cannot exist in two places at once-when you ask if we can still be friends.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur Live to be happy not to impress.
Hayley EvansHayley Evans
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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
John VianneyJohn Vianney I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not a devil, either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.
Maria CallasMaria Callas I will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel!
Maria CallasMaria Callas Music attracts the angels in the universe.
Bob DylanBob Dylan A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats It’s okay, girl, we’ll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We’re fallen angels who didn’t believe that nothing means nothing.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
John DonneJohn Donne
