How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
JOHN VIANNEYOur 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!
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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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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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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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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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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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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Christian wife! Follow in the footsteps of the ideal of all womanhood, the Blessed Mother of God; in joy and in sorrow, she will be your advocate at the throne of her Son.
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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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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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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 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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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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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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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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