The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
JOHN VIANNEYOur Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them.
More John Vianney Quotes
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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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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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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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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