"It is without doubt very humiliating for the good God to come into our hearts, but it is to find there a soul that He loves, that He has bought at the cost of His Blood." Source: St. John Vianney, The Meditations of the Curé D’Ars
"Jesus our food, incomparable glory of the Christian soul. What the Angels behold only with awe, the radiant splendour of which they cannot sustain, we make our food, we receive it into us, we become with Jesus Christ one same Body one sole Flesh." Source: St. John Vianney, The Meditations of the Curé D’Ars [...]
"O my soul, how great thou art since only a God can satisfy thee! The food of the soul is the Body and Blood of a God! What beautiful nourishment! The soul can only feed on a God! No other than God can suffice. Only God can satisfy its hunger. It needs God absolutely." [...]
"The soul also must be fed. Where then is its food? When God wished to give food to our soul to sustain it in the pilgrimage of this life, He looked over all the creation and found nothing worthy of it. Then He fell back on Himself and resolved to give Himself." Source: St. [...]
"A mortal man, a creature, feeds himself, satiates himself with his God, making of Him his daily food and drink! O miracle of miracles! O love beyond all love! O happiness beyond all happiness! I thank you, O my God, and I ask of you the grace to hunger always for this heavenly food." [...]
"None [of the other sacraments] can be compared to the Eucharist… all this [Baptism, Reconciliation, Confirmation, Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders and Marriage] seems to be only an apprenticeship to His love for men. In the adorable Sacrament of the Eucharist He goes much further." Source: St. John Vianney, The Meditations of the [...]
"He chose for instituting the Eucharist bread and wine, the food of all, both rich and poor, of strong or weak, to show us that his heavenly nourishment is for all Christians - little and great, subjects and kings: 'Come to me all you who wish to preserve the life of grace and to have [...]
"What love is there like to that of Jesus Christ? He chose for the institution of the Eucharist the eve of the day on which He was to be put to death! Men weave the darkest plots against Him, and He thinks only what is the most precious gift He can give them! They think [...]
"Knowing that the time had come for Him to return to His Father, He could not make up His mind to leave us alone among so many enemies, all seeking our destruction. He wanted us to have the happiness of being able to find Him always whenever we wished, and by this great sacrament, He [...]
"By the Eucharist He feeds His children, not with the Manna with which the Jewish people were fed in the desert, but with His adorable Body and His precious Blood." Source: St. John Vianney, The Meditations of the Curé D’Ars