There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
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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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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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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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If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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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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See, my children, a person who is in a state of sin is always sad. Whatever he does, he is weary and disgusted with every thing; while he who is at peace with God is always happy, always joyous. . . Oh, beautiful life! Oh, beautiful death!
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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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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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