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
attachment god-love
God loves all those who love him: I love them that love Me.
heart attachment giving
Many, however, gives themselves to God, but preserve still in their hearts some attachment to creatures, which prevents them from belonging entirely to God.
heart attachment giving
It is just that he should act with reserve towards those who act with reserve towards him. On the contrary, he gives himself entirely to those souls, who, driving from their hearts everything that is not God, and does not lead them to his love, and giving themselves to him without reserve, truly say to him: My God and my all.
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 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.
attachment giving god-love
How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?
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.
apply aside asked duties god italian-clergyman lay mind
You are not asked to apply your mind continually to the thought of God and lay aside the fulfillment of your duties and your recreations.
giving saint lost
Let us make up for lost time. Let us give to God the time that remains to us.
eight water earth
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.
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...
religious redemption glory
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.
mother religious jesus
After the love which we owe Jesus Christ, we must give the chief place in our heart to the love of His Mother Mary.
dance mad long
A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth.