Alphonsus Liguori Quotes About Saints

Quotes about: Saints

• He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.

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  Desire, Saint, Rich

• He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.

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  Saint, Trust In God, Lost

• True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.

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  Winning, Evil, Catholic

• What does it cost us to say: "My God help me! Have mercy on me!" Is there anything easier than this? And this little will suffice to save us if we be diligent in doing it.

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  Doe, Saint, Cost

• If you embrace all things in this life as coming from the hands of God, and even embrace death to fulfill His holy will, assuredly you will die a saint.

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  Hands, Suffering, Saint

• Let us make up for lost time. Let us give to God the time that remains to us.

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  Giving, Saint, Lost

• If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for, as an alms, all that we need.

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  Saint, Needs, Praying

• The means for maintaining perfect love is to accomplish frequent acts of love. Fire is kindled by the wood we cast into it and love is enkindled by acts of love.

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  Mean, Love Is, Fire

• In obedience to humanity, the King of the universe come down from heaven! In obedience to humanity, he lives imprisoned on the altar! I shall not resist. He allows humans to keep him wherever they wish-in monstrance or tabernacle; to carry him in procession; to bring him into the homes of the sick and dying; to dispense him to all, whether saint or sinner. The gospel tells how marvelously he obeyed Mary and Joseph. Today he obeys every priest in the world.

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  Kings, Home, Sick

• We must show charity towards the sick, who are in greater need of help. Let us take them some small gift if they are poor, or, at least let us go and wait on them and comfort them.

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  Sick, Waiting, Comfort

• Saint Teresa, as the Roman Rota attests, never fell into any mortal sin; but still Our Lord showed her the place prepared for her in Hell; not because she deserved Hell, but because, had she not risen from the state of lukewarmness in which she lived, she would in the end have lost the grace of God and been damned.

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  Grace, Saint, Sin

• The way to Heaven is straight and narrow: they who wish to arrive at that place of bliss by walking in the paths of pleasure shall be disappointed; and therefore few reach it, because few are willing to use violence to themselves in resisting temptations.

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  Heaven, Temptation, Wish

• It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.

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  Soul, Saint, Excess

• 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

• Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying our flesh.

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  Attachment, Saint, Flesh

• Do not allow your daughters to be taught letters by a man, though he be a St. Paul or St. Francis of Assissium. The saints are in Heaven.

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  Daughter, Teaching, Men

• "Happy he that knows Thee, even if he knows nothing else," says St. Augustine. If we knew all the sciences and knew not how to love Jesus Christ, our knowledge shall profit us nothing to eternal life. But if we know how to love Jesus Christ, we shall know all things, and shall be happy for eternity.

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  Jesus, Saint, How To Love

  St Alphonsus Liguori (2009). “Dignity and Duties of the Priest Or Selva”, p.291, St Athanasius Press

• Jesus is the mediator of justice; Mary obtains for us grace; for, as St. Bernard, St. Bonaventure, St. Bernardine of Siena, St. Germanus, St. Antoninus, and others say, it is the will of God to dispense through the hands of Mary whatever graces he is pleased to bestow upon us. With God, the prayers of the saints are the prayers of His friends, but the prayers of Mary are the prayers of His mother.

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  Mother, Jesus, Prayer

  Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, Catholic Way Publishing (2016). “The Saint Alphonsus de Liguori Collection [30 Books]”, p.623, Catholic Way Publishing

• A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated.

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  Jesus, Soul, Desire

• The more a person loves God, the more reason he has to hope in Him. This hope produces in the Saints an unutterable peace, which they preserve even in adversity, because as they love God, and know how beautiful He is to those who love Him, they place all their confidence and find all their repose in Him alone.

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  Beautiful, Adversity, Saint

• In cold and heat, in rain and wind, the soul united to God says, "I want it to be warm, to be cold, windy, to rain, because God wills it."

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  Rain, Wind, Soul

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “Uniformity with God's Will”, p.9, TAN Books

• All souls in hell are there because they did not pray. All the saints sanctified themselves by prayer.

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  Prayer, Soul, Saint

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