Alphonsus Liguori Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• In the Great Deluge in the days of Noah, nearly all mankind perished, eight persons alone being saved in the Ark. In our days a deluge, not of water but of sins, continually inundates the earth, and out of this deluge very few escape. Scarcely anyone is saved.

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  Eight, Water, Ark

• If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love.

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  Loving Life, Attachment, Wish

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “How to Converse with God”, p.3, TAN Books

• The sovereigns of the earth do not always grant audience readily; on the contrary, the King of Heaven, hidden under the eucharistic veils, is ready to receive anyone.

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  Kings, Heaven, Veils

• Before the coming of Jesus Christ, men fled away from God and, being attached to the earth, refused to unite themselves to their Creator. But the loving God has drawn them to Himself by the bonds of love, as He promised by the prophet Osee [Hosea]: "I will draw them with the cords of Adam, with the bonds of love" (11:4). These bonds are the benefits, the lights, the calls to His love, the promises of Paradise which He makes to us, but above all, the gift which He has bestowed upon us of Jesus Christ in the Sacrifice of the Cross and in the Sacrament of the Altar.

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  Jesus, Sacrifice, Men

• The brightest ornaments in the crown of the blessed in heaven are the sufferings which they have borne patiently on earth.

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  Blessed, Heaven, Suffering

• It would be the greatest delight of the seraphs to pile up sand on the seashore or to pull weeds in a garden for all eternity, if they found out such was God's will. Our Lord himself teaches us to ask to do the will of God on earth as the saints do it in heaven: "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

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  Weed, Garden, Heaven

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “Uniformity with God's Will”, p.6, TAN Books

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