The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
JOHN VIANNEYWhen 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.
More John Vianney Quotes
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If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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See, my children, a person who is in a state of sin is always sad. Whatever he does, he is weary and disgusted with every thing; while he who is at peace with God is always happy, always joyous. . . Oh, beautiful life! Oh, beautiful death!
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The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.
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Upon receiving Holy Communion, the Adorable Blood of Jesus Christ really flows in our veins and His Flesh is really blended with ours.
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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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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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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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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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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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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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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