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.
JOHN VIANNEYThe saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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 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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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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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 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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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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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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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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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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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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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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