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Him Quotes by Alphonsus Liguori
- St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back upon God, leaving…
- How beautiful she is, Our Lady of compassion! How dear! How utterly unselfish! How filled with joy for Him - and us - in the…
- 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…
- 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…
- Know also that you will probably gain more by praying fifteen minutes before the Blessed Sacrament than by all the other spiritual exercises of the…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him.
- 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…
- God loves all those who love him: I love them that love Me.
- 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…
- He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.
- Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him.
- With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should…
- Not only is there no need of an intermediary through whom He would want you to speak to Him, but He finds His delight in…
- God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.
- 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…
- 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…
- Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you.
- Job was astonished at seeing Almighty God so intent on doing good to us that He seems to have nothing more at heart than to…
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- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden