Alphonsus Liguori Quotes

What a bitter, bitter thing is the service of Satan, even in this world!

He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.

The devil's name is dullness.

Satan has an agenda.

The Devil is fun.

Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

A man, well, he'll walk right into Hell with both eyes open. But even the devil can't fool a dog.

The devil makes many disciples by preaching against sin. He convinces them that the great evil of sin, induces a crisis of guilt by which “God is satisfied," and after that he lets them spend the rest of their lives meditating on the intense sinfulness and evident reprobation of other men.

I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.

Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.

Adultery is an image of hell.

And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.

Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not whoop at them; But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in Wonder to wait on treason and on murder; And whatsoever cunning fiend it was That wrought upon thee so preposterously Hath got the voice in hell for excellence.

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt.

You have to do your First Penance before your First Holy Communion. You're really young. What do you know? You've got nothing to confess. All I knew was that I was an evil human whose sins caused the death of our Lord.

But the guilt goes even deeper than that. It, too, is dust: Layers and layers of it have accumulated. Because if it weren’t for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all. I told on them. I was jealous. God forgive me, for I have sinned.

When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows

The media have, indeed, provided the Devil with perhaps the greatest opportunity accorded him since Adam and Eve were turned out of the Garden of Eden.

If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.

A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.

Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good.

You never know when the devil might come calling.

The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.