On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
JOHN VIANNEYWhen 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.
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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When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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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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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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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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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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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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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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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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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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