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Saint Quotes by Alphonsus Liguori
- It would be the greatest delight of the seraphs to pile up sand on the seashore or to pull weeds in a garden for all…
- 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…
- 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…
- He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.
- He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.
- What does it cost us to say: "My God help me! Have mercy on me!" Is there anything easier than this? And this little will…
- The way to Heaven is straight and narrow: they who wish to arrive at that place of bliss by walking in the paths of pleasure…
- "Happy he that knows Thee, even if he knows nothing else," says St. Augustine. If we knew all the sciences and knew not how to…
- A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated.
- In cold and heat, in rain and wind, the soul united to God says, "I want it to be warm, to be cold, windy, to…
- Let us make up for lost time. Let us give to God the time that remains to us.
- If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for,…
- 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…
- 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…
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- For it is in giving that we receive. — Francis of Assisi
- If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and… — Margaret Atwood
- Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. — Saint Augustine
- May God protect me from gloomy saints. — Teresa of Avila
- Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because… — Teresa of Avila
- To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing. — Charles Baudelaire
- We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? — Samuel Beckett
- There is no sinner like a young saint. — Aphra Behn
- Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic… — Ezra Taft Benson
- For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are… — Annie Besant
- My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote… — Annie Besant
- Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited. — Ambrose Bierce