The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
JOHN VIANNEYShall 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.
More John Vianney Quotes
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There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
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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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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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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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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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The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to vomit its impurities upon the earth.
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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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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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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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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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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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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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If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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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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