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 VIANNEYWhen 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.
More John Vianney Quotes
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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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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The Devil writes down our sins – our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel’s book may be full, and the Devil’s empty.
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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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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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The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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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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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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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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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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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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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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When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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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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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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