Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
JOHN VIANNEYThe pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
More John Vianney Quotes
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The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of 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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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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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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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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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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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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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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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 sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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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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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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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 saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.
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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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