Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
JOHN VIANNEY
The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.
More John Vianney Quotes
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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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Our body is a vessel of corruption; it is meant for death and for the worms, nothing more! And yet we devote ourselves to satisfying it, rather than to enriching our soul, which is so great that we can conceive nothing greater – no, nothing, nothing!
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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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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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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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If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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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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.
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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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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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The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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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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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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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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