Upon receiving Holy Communion, the Adorable Blood of Jesus Christ really flows in our veins and His Flesh is really blended with ours.
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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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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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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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 pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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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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The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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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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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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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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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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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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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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