You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to 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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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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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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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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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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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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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.
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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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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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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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