Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.
JOHN VIANNEYIf you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
More John Vianney Quotes
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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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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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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 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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The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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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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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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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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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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If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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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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