On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
JOHN VIANNEYOnly after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.
More John Vianney Quotes
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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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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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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Have you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give to the poor some alms which will exceed the profit you have made.
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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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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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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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To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.
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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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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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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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If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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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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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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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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