Upon receiving Holy Communion, the Adorable Blood of Jesus Christ really flows in our veins and His Flesh is really blended with ours.
JOHN VIANNEYThe virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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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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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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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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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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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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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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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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The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.
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We ought to ask the Blessed Virgin, the angels, and the saints to pray for us that we may receive the good God as worthily as it is possible for us to receive him.
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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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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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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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