Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.
JOHN VIANNEYIf 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.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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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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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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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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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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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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