Alphonsus Liguori Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet that God does not hear us, but permits the temptation to continue troubling us. In such a case, let us understand that God permits even this for our greater good.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Prayer, Perfection, Temptation

  "The Great Means of Salvation and of Perfection".

• Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends. Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you. Converse with Him confidently and frankly; for God is not wont to speak to a soul that does not speak to Him.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Soul, And Love, Doe

• There is nothing more pleasing to God, than to see a soul who patiently and serenely bears whatever crosses it is sent; this is how love is made, by putting lover and loved one on the same level. . . A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised and humiliated.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Jesus, Love Is, Soul

• To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Silence, Soul, Ruins

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2012). “Sermons of St. Alphonsus Liguori: For All the Sundays of the Year”, p.117, TAN Books

• Woe to those who despise devotion to Mary! ... The soul cannot live without having recourse to Mary and recommending itself to her. He falls and is lost who does not have recourse to Mary.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Christian, Fall, Soul

• Good friends find pleasure in one another's company. Let us know pleasure in the company of our best Friend, a Friend who can do everything for us, a friend who loves us beyond measure. Here in the Blessed Sacrament we can talk to him straight from the heart. We can open our souls to him, tell him what we need, beg him for powerful graces. We are perfectly free to approach the King of the universe with full confidence and without fear.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Kings, Powerful, Blessed

• I Love Jesus Christ and that is why I am on fire with the desire to give Him souls, first of all my own, and then an incalculable number of others.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Jesus, Numbers, Fire

• Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Humility, Past, Soul

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “How to Converse with God”, p.7, TAN Books

• "The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land." When the soul, like the solitary turtle-dove, retires and recollects itself in meditation to converse with God, then the flowers, that is, good desires, appear; then comes the time of pruning, that is, the correction of faults that are discovered in mental prayer.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Prayer, Flower, Turtles

• Certainly amongst all devotions, after that of receiving the sacraments, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament holds first place, is most pleasing to God, and most useful to ourselves. Do not then, O devout soul, refuse to begin this devotion; and forsaking the conversation of men, dwell each day, from this time forward, for at least half or quarter of an hour, in some church, in the presence of Jesus Christ under the sacramental species. Taste and see how sweet is the Lord.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Sweet, Jesus, Blessed

• Love tends to union with the object loved. Now Jesus Christ loves a soul that is in a state of grace with immense love; He ardently desires to unite Himself with it. That is what Holy Communion does

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Jesus, Grace, Soul

• 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.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Soul, Saint, Excess

• God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Self Love, Soul, Sincerely

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

• It is just that he should act with reserve towards those who act with reserve towards him. On the contrary, he gives himself entirely to those souls, who, driving from their hearts everything that is not God, and does not lead them to his love, and giving themselves to him without reserve, truly say to him: My God and my all.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Heart, Attachment, Giving

  "The Saint Alphonsus de Liguori Collection".

• Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Mother, Children, Soul

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “How to Converse with God”, p.7, TAN Books

• He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Soul, Suffering, Surfer

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

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Prayer, Soul, Saint

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

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Jesus, Soul, Desire

• 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."

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Rain, Wind, Soul

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

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