There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
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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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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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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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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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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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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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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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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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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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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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