Quotes from Alphonsus Liguori
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.
- Alphonsus Liguori
With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him.
- Alphonsus Liguori
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
The sufferings endured for God are the greatest proof of our love for Him.
- Alphonsus Liguori
God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.
- Alphonsus Liguori
He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.
- Alphonsus Liguori
True, He is infinite Majesty, but He is also infinite Goodness and infinite Love. There can be no greater Lord than God; neither can there be a more ardent lover than He.
- Alphonsus Liguori
By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it take delight in its sufferings.
- Alphonsus Liguori
Perfect love of God means the complete union of our will with God's.
- Alphonsus Liguori
Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him.
- Alphonsus Liguori
The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.
- Alphonsus Liguori
How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?
- Alphonsus Liguori