There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
JOHN VIANNEYIt is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
More John Vianney Quotes
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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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When our hands have touched spices, they give fragrance to all they handle. Let us make our prayers pass through the hands of the Blessed Virgin. She will make them fragrant.
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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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We ought to run after crosses as the miser runs after money. . . Nothing but crosses will reassure us at the Day of Judgment When that day shall come, we shall be happy in our misfortunes, proud of our humiliations, and rich in our sacrifices!
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Have you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give to the poor some alms which will exceed the profit you have made.
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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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When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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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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When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.
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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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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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