To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.
JOHN VIANNEYGod commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
More John Vianney Quotes
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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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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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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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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 first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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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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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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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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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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If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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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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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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