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
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And divine grace is the inestimable treasure through which vile creatures and servants like ourselves become dear friends of our Creator.
weed garden heaven
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."
jesus love-is soul
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.
baptism grace may
A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism.
attachment flesh penance
Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying our flesh.
jesus attachment wish
He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.
attachment giving god-love
How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?
church definitions salvation
The definitions of the Church are the rules of true faith.
errors imagination catholic
Those who are seeking the true religion will never find it outside the Catholic Church alone, because, in every other religion, if they trace it up to the author, they will find some impostor whose imagination furnished a mass of sophisms and errors
jesus desire bread
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!
offering way divine-will
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.
sins-not sin terrible
What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.
sick waiting needs
We must show charity towards the sick, who are in greater need of help. Let us take them some small gift if they are poor, or, at least let us go and wait on them and comfort them.
jesus believe love-you
My Lord Jesus Christ, who, for the love You bear to mankind, do remain night and day in this Sacrament, full of pity and love, awaiting, calling, and receiving all who come to visit You; I believe that You are present in the Sacrament of the Altar; I adore You from the depths of my own nothingness; I thank You for the many graces You have given me, and especially for having given me Yourself in this Sacrament...