It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
JOHN VIANNEYSin is the assassin of the soul.
More John Vianney Quotes
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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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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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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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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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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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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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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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There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
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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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The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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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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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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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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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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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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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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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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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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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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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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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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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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When our hands have touched spices, they give fragrance to all they handle. Let us make our prayers pass through the hands of the Blessed Virgin. She will make them fragrant.
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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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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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