How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
JOHN VIANNEYIf only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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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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If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.
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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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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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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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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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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.
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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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If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself of all that is not absolutely necessary for life.
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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.
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