Alphonsus Liguori Quotes

Whoever prays is certainly saved. He who does not is certainly damned. All the blessed have been saved by prayer. All the damned have been lost through not praying. If they had prayed they would not have been lost. And this is, and will be their greatest torment in hell: to think how easily they might have been saved, just by asking God for His grace, but that now it is too late - their time of prayer is gone.

I'm ensuring my place in heaven.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul.

Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.

Getting into Heaven is not something you can earn or deserve. God makes that really clear in the scriptures.

There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.

My ultimate goal is to become a saint.

I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.

I'm not getting to heaven on my integrity. I'm not getting to heaven on my goodness.

To get to heaven, you have to work very hard. I want to go to heaven, so I will try to pray more.

Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long.

Give me great sinners to make great saints! They are glorious raw material for Grace to work upon and when you do get them saved, they will shake the very gates of Hell!

Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Come as you are. If you are the blackest soul out of hell, trust Christ, and that act of trust shall make you clean.

Jesus intercedes for us each day. Let us pray: Lord, have mercy on me; intercede for me!

The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation.

Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.

If those of us who believe in God do not believe God's grace is big enough to save the whole world... well, we should at least pray that it is.

It is a common assumption that a person's good works will get them into Heaven.

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.

God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.