When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
JOHN VIANNEYTo serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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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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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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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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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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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Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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It is always springtime in the heart that loves 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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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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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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