Quotes from Alphonsus Liguori

So great is the compassion excited in Mary by our misery, and such is the love that she bears us, that she prays constantly, and relaxes not her efforts in our behalf.

Perfect love of God means the complete union of our will with God's.

Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him.

The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.

How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?

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

It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.

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

Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction.

Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.

O God-Man present in this sacrament for me - what a comfort, what a privilege to know I kneel before God! And to think that this God loves me!... Mary, my mother, help me to love him in return

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

Mary being destined to negotiate peace between God and man, it was not proper that she should be an accomplice in the disobedience of Adam.

Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you.

A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated.

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

The definitions of the Church are the rules of true faith.

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