How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
JOHN VIANNEYTo serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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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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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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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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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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Have you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give to the poor some alms which will exceed the profit you have made.
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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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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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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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The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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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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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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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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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.
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The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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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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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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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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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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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!
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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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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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