On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
JOHN VIANNEY
JOHN VIANNEY
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The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
John VianneyJohn Vianney 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.
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Even with broken wings, she dares to fly. And even with a broken heart, she dares to love.
Divya khandalDivya khandal And I refuse to apologize until the very end for the way that I feel – my feelings are valid too.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Contemplate your own mortality daily, then see how much we must change.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Poetry is the voice of the soul and the inspiration of the heart.
Teresa PeresTeresa Peres We parted sadly, like children in the street on a pleasant june afternoon.
Iestyn TudorIestyn Tudor And what shall I call you? Yours. In this life, the ones before, and all others thereafter.
Alexandra MichelleAlexandra Michelle If I could go back to a time I’d be with you. And I’d thank you again for almost being the healing to my heart.
Aimee C. HoveyAimee C. Hovey I was a living breathing nightmare and he was my favorite dream catcher.
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To have attained to the human form is a source of joy. What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.
ZhuangziZhuangzi Only super-efforts count.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff I’m counting every heartbeat to tell you how much life you give to me.
Annie MenendezAnnie Menendez I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported.
Dmitri ShostakovichDmitri Shostakovich He looks up in the sky. I count stars in his eyes.
Ananya BhaskarAnanya Bhaskar How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
Jackie RobinsonJackie Robinson Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and struck.
A. E. HousmanA. E. Housman The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert