Top 80 Alphonsus Liguori Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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

2. “Perfect love of God means the complete union of our will with God’s.”

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3. “Your God is ever beside you – indeed, He is even within you.”

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4. “He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.”

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5. “Those who say the Rosary daily and wear the Brown Scapular and who do a little more, will go straight to Heaven.”

— Alphonsus Liguori

6. “Let us make up for lost time. Let us give to God the time that remains to us.”

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7. “Without prayer it is impossible to resist temptations and to keep the commandments.”

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8. “The sufferings endured for God are the greatest proof of our love for Him.”

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9. “True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.”

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10. “He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.”

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11. “He who prays most receives most.”

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12. “A true servant of Mary cannot be lost.”

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13. “When we hear people talk of riches, honors and amusements of the world, let us remember that all things have an end, and let us then say: My God, I wish for You alone and nothing more.”

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14. “All souls in hell are there because they did not pray. All the saints sanctified themselves by prayer.”

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15. “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.”

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16. “God loves all those who love him: I love them that love Me.”

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17. “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.”

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18. “Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears – of everything that concerns you.”

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19. “Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.”

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20. “To put into practice the teachings of our holy faith, it is not enough to convince ourselves that they are true; we must love them. Love united to faith makes us practice our religion.”

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21. “The heart of man is, so to speak, the paradise of God.”

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22. “In the Great Deluge in the days of Noah, nearly all mankind perished, eight persons alone being saved in the Ark. In our days a deluge, not of water but of sins, continually inundates the earth, and out of this deluge very few escape. Scarcely anyone is saved.”

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23. “He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.”

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24. “We must practice modesty, not only in our looks, but also in our whole deportment, and particularly in our dress, our walk, our conversation, and all similar actions.”

— Alphonsus Liguori

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

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26. “The definitions of the Church are the rules of true faith.”

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27. “What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.”

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28. “St. Francis Borgia says that he who desires to consecrate himself to God must, in the first place, trample under his feet all regard for what others will say of him. O my God, why do we not ask what Jesus Christ or his holy mother will think of our conduct?”

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29. “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.”

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30. “Let us thank God for having called us to His holy faith. It is a great gift, and the number of those who thank God for it is small.”

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31. “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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32. “The brightest ornaments in the crown of the blessed in heaven are the sufferings which they have borne patiently on earth.”

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33. “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.”

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34. “But You never reject a repentant and humble heart.”

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35. “Were you to ask what are the means of overcoming temptations, I would answer: The first means is prayer; the second is prayer; the third is prayer; and you should you ask me a thousand times, I would repeat the same.”

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36. “There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.”

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37. “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.”

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38. “Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him.”

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39. “After the love which we owe Jesus Christ, we must give the chief place in our heart to the love of His Mother Mary.”

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40. “Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases.”

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41. “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.”

— Alphonsus Liguori

42. “It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.”

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43. “Let us remember the devil labors hard to disturb us at the time of recollection in order to make us abandon it. Let him then who omits mental prayer on account of distractions be persuaded that he gives delight to the devil.”

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44. “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.”

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45. “Mary having co-operated in our redemption with so much glory to God and so much love for us, Our Lord ordained that no one shall obtain salvation except through her intercession.”

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46. “All would wish to be saved and to enjoy the glory of paradise; but to gain heaven, it is necessary to walk in the straight road that leads to eternal bliss. This road is the observance of the divine commandments. Hence, in his preaching, the Baptist exclaimed: Make straight the way of the Lord.”

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47. “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.”

— Alphonsus Liguori

48. “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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49. “Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.”

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50. “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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