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.
JOHN VIANNEYThere is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
More John Vianney Quotes
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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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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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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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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The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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We ought to run after crosses as the miser runs after money. . . Nothing but crosses will reassure us at the Day of Judgment When that day shall come, we shall be happy in our misfortunes, proud of our humiliations, and rich in our sacrifices!
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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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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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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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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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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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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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