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 VIANNEYAlmighty God sends no trial without consolation.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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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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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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 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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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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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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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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The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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