If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.
JOHN VIANNEYUpon receiving Holy Communion, the Adorable Blood of Jesus Christ really flows in our veins and His Flesh is really blended with ours.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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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 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 sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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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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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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 pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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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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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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I thought a time would come when people would rout me out of Ars with sticks, when the Bishop would suspend me, and I should end my days in prison. I see, however, that I am not worthy of such a grace.
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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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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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