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 VIANNEYAll that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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Shall we all be saved? Shall we go to Heaven? Alas, my children, we do not know at all! But I tremble when I see so many souls lost these days. See, they fall into Hell as leaves fall from the trees at the approach of winter.
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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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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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Christian wife! Follow in the footsteps of the ideal of all womanhood, the Blessed Mother of God; in joy and in sorrow, she will be your advocate at the throne of her Son.
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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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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to vomit its impurities upon the earth.
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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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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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