When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.
JOHN VIANNEYWhen we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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 find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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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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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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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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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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If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.
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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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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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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!
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Our Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them.
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