Quotes from Alphonsus Liguori
He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.
- Alphonsus Liguori
The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.
- Alphonsus Liguori
There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.
- Alphonsus Liguori
Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases.
- Alphonsus Liguori
There is no one, after God, who loves us as much as this most loving Mother does.
- Alphonsus Liguori
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.
- Alphonsus Liguori
He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.
- Alphonsus Liguori
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
When we see a beautiful object, a beautiful garden, or a beautiful flower, let us think that there we behold a ray of the infinite beauty of God, who has given existence to that object.
- Alphonsus Liguori
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
Of all devotions, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the greatest after the sacraments, the one dearest to God and the one most helpful to us.
- Alphonsus Liguori
Let us make up for lost time. Let us give to God the time that remains to us.
- Alphonsus Liguori