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• St. Jerome declares that he holds for certain, and has learned from experience, that he will never make a good end who has led a bad life to the very last: 'This I hold, this I have learned by much experience, that his will be an evil end who has always led an evil life.'

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  Evil, Lasts, Bad Life

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2009). “Preparation for Death: A Popular Abridgment”, p.45, TAN Books

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• No, he can never be lost who recommends himself to thee, O Mary.

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  Lost, Mary, Thee

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• 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

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• 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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• Obedience to a confessor is the most acceptable offering which we can make to God, and the most secure way of doing the divine will.

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  Offering, Way, Divine Will

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2012). “Sermons of St. Alphonsus Liguori: For All the Sundays of the Year”, p.162, TAN Books

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• The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.

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  Retirement, Prayer, Mean

  Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, Aeterna Press (2016). “The True Spouse of Jesus Christ”, p.24, Aeterna Press

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• "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.

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  Prayer, Flower, Turtles

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• My Jesus! What a lovable contrivance this holy Sacrament was - that You would hide under the appearance of bread to make Yourself loved and to be available for a visit by anyone who desires You!

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  Jesus, Desire, Bread

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• A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism.

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  Grace, Baptism, May

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• Mary being destined to negotiate peace between God and man, it was not proper that she should be an accomplice in the disobedience of Adam.

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  Men, Adam, Should

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• 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.

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  Humility, Past, Soul

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

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• Not only is there no need of an intermediary through whom He would want you to speak to Him, but He finds His delight in having you treat with Him personally and in all confidence.

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  Confidence, Needs, Delight

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “How to Converse with God”, p.4, TAN Books

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• But You never reject a repentant and humble heart.

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  Humble, Heart, Humble Heart

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “How to Converse with God”, p.1, TAN Books

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• 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

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• It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.

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  Mistake, Slave, Masters

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “How to Converse with God”, p.4, TAN Books

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• How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?

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  Attachment, Giving, God Love

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• Our Faith will never be true unless it is united to that of St. Peter and the Pontiff, his successors.

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  Peter, Being True, United

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• Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him.

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  Confidence, Practice, Possible Love

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

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• The definitions of the Church are the rules of true faith.

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  Church, Definitions, Salvation

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• God loves all those who love him: I love them that love Me.

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  Attachment, God Love

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