The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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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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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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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Upon receiving Holy Communion, the Adorable Blood of Jesus Christ really flows in our veins and His Flesh is really blended with ours.
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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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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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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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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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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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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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