Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.
JOHN VIANNEYHow sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
More John Vianney Quotes
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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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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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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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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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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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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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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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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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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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 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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