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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!

John Vianney

To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.
JOHN VIANNEY

Command Government Heaven Live Service
There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
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God Greatness Ourselves Precious
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!
JOHN VIANNEY

Beautiful Children Death Happiness Peace Person
It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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God Heart Love Time
How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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Death Live Religious Sweet
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 Heaven Number People World
The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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Angel Conscious God Imitation Presence
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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Herself Ideal Joy Sorrow Woman
When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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Envelope Holy Love Soul
You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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Choice God World Yourself
Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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Love Prayer Soul
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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Body Experience Fragrance Holy Joy Thrill
On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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Count Path Step
If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself of all that is not absolutely necessary for life.
JOHN VIANNEY

Attachment Earth Life Necessary Punishment
All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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God Offering Religious Waste
The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
JOHN VIANNEY

Beautiful Fragrance Purity Soul

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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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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