Alphonsus Liguori
Alphonsus Liguori
Saint Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori, C.Ss.R., was an Italian Catholic bishop, spiritual writer, composer, musician, artist, poet, lawyer, scholastic philosopher, and theologian...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth27 September 1696
CountryItaly
Alphonsus Liguori quotes about
fire wrath suffering
When we have to reply to anyone who has insulted us, we should be careful to do it always with gentleness. A soft answer extinguishes the fire of wrath.
practice may please
Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases.
humble water suffering
You will gain more by receiving scorn peacefully than if you fasted for a week on bread and water. It is good to humble ourselves; but it is much more worthwhile to accept the humiliations that come to us from others.
kings home sick
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.
kings pain loss
St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back upon God, leaving the Creator for the sake of the creature. What punishment would that subject deserve who, while his king was giving him a command, contemptuously turned his back upon him to go and transgress his orders? This is what the sinner does; and this is punished in hell with the pain of loss, that is, the loss of God, a punishment richly deserved by him who in this life turns his back upon his sovereign good.
doe saint cost
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.
kings powerful blessed
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.
loving-life attachment wish
If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love.
humility past soul
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.
retirement prayer mean
The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.
self-love soul diffidence
God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.
daughter teaching men
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.
peter being-true united
Our Faith will never be true unless it is united to that of St. Peter and the Pontiff, his successors.
wickedness uniting goodness
As all our wickedness consists in turning away from our Creator, so all our goodness consists in uniting ourselves with Him.