"Private prayer is like straw scattered here and……" — John Vianney
"Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there: If you set it on fire it makes a lot of little flames. But gather these straws into a bundle and light them, and you get a mighty fire, rising like a column into the sky; public prayer is like that."
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John Vianney
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32 Quotes by John Vianney
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My little children, your hearts, are small, but prayer stretches them and makes them capable of loving God. Through prayer…
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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary - a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole…
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There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to…
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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 saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against…
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If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go…
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Envy, my children, follows pride; whoever is envious is proud. See, envy comes to us from Hell; the devils having…
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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell…
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A pure soul is like a fine pearl. As long as it is hidden in the shell, at the bottom…
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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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