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When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.

John Vianney

I thought a time would come when people would rout me out of Ars with sticks, when the Bishop would suspend me, and I should end my days in prison. I see, however, that I am not worthy of such a grace.
JOHN VIANNEY

Day Myself People Prison Suspend Thinking Time Worth
If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
JOHN VIANNEY

Goodness Impossible Prayer Yourself
Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
JOHN VIANNEY

Pay Understand Yourself
If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
JOHN VIANNEY

Angel Fight Ourselves See Temptation
The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
JOHN VIANNEY

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.
JOHN VIANNEY

Herself Ideal Joy Sorrow Woman
The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.
JOHN VIANNEY

Anxiety Build Burn Carry Forgiveness God Sin Woman
If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.
JOHN VIANNEY

Blessing God Help Leaving Yourself
When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.
JOHN VIANNEY

God Heart Help Love Purity Simplicity
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

Myself Night Prayer Rise See
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!
JOHN VIANNEY

Judgement Misery Money Ourselves Rich Run Sacrifice
A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
JOHN VIANNEY

Heaven People Priest
When 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.
JOHN VIANNEY

Blessing Fragrance Hands Herself Prayer Touch
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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Bitter Deserve Forgiveness God Hate Offend
Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.
JOHN VIANNEY

Busy Children Herself Judgement Mary
There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
JOHN VIANNEY

God Greatness Ourselves Precious

When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.

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