When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.
JOHN VIANNEYI 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.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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 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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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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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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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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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 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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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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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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The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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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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