Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
JOHN VIANNEYIf you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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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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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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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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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The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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Our Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them.
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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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Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.
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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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