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Saint Alphonsus Liguori CSsR (1696–1787), sometimes called Alphonsus Maria Liguori, was an Italian Catholic bishop, spiritual writer, composer, musician, artist, poet, lawyer, scholastic philosopher, and theologian.

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

Constant, May, Offer, Please, Pleases, Practice

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.

Home, Joseph, Kings, Obeys, Sick, Tabernacle

By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it take delight in its sufferings.

Delight, Heart, Law, Sufferings, Sympathy

He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.

Desire, Desires, Happy, Nothing, Rich, Saint

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.

Except, Glory, Intercession, Redemption, Religious, Salvation

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

Giving, Let, Lost, Make, Remains, Saint

Saint Teresa, as the Roman Rota attests, never fell into any mortal sin; but still Our Lord showed her the place prepared for her in Hell; not because she deserved Hell, but because, had she not risen from the state of lukewarmness in which she lived, she would in the end have lost the grace of God and been damned.

Grace, Rota, Saint, Sin, State

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.

Body, Effects, Excess, Saint, Soul

Mary obtains salvation for all who have recourse to her. Oh! If all sinners had recourse to Mary, who would ever be lost?. . . He who is protected by her will be saved; he who is not will be lost.

Lost, Mary, Obtains, Protected, Recourse, Salvation

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!

Bread, Contrivance, Desire, Hide, Jesus, Make

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, Flesh, Mortifying, Read, Saint

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.

Divine, Divine Will, God, Offering, Way

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.

Act, Masters, Mistake, Slave, Timid, Trembling

To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.

Confessing, Impelled, Ruins, Silence, Soul, Virtue

You may be sure that of all the moments of your life, the time you spend before the divine Sacrament will be that which will give you more strength during life and more consolation at the hour of your death and during eternity

Death, Giving, May, Moments, Sacrament, Spend

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.

Blessed, Kings, Loves, Perfectly, Powerful, Straight

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

Church, Definitions, Faith, Rules, Salvation

The more a person loves God, the more reason he has to hope in Him. This hope produces in the Saints an unutterable peace, which they preserve even in adversity, because as they love God, and know how beautiful He is to those who love Him, they place all their confidence and find all their repose in Him alone.

Adversity, Beautiful, Hope, Saint, Saints

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

Confidence, Love, Possible Love, Practice

To obtain salvation we must tremble at the thought of being lost, and tremble not so much at the thought of hell, as of sin, which alone can send us thither. He who dreads sin avoids dangerous occasions, frequently recommends himself to God, and has recourse to the means of keeping himself in the state of grace. He who acts thus will be saved; but for him who lives not in this manner it is morally impossible to be saved.

Mean, Grace, Impossible, Keeping, God, Acts

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