When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.
JOHN VIANNEYThe first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
More John Vianney Quotes
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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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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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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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It is always springtime in the heart that loves 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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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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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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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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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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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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