Alphonsus Liguori Quotes

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 be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him.

Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly because God is so powerful, and you don't fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight.

Henceforth the majesty of God revere;Fear Him, and you have nothing else to fear.

To know God is to fear Him. And this fear is to love Him as He deserves to be loved.

We are to yield to the authority God has in place, and look to Him to find out what He would have us to do about those things that are concerning to us.

Fear not the proud and the haughty; fear rather him who fears God.

If a person fears God, she has no reason to fear anything else.

When you fear God you fear nothing else!

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Whenever the strength of God is not recognized as the source of our strength, we are breaking the First Commandment: Do not have any gods before me.

The concept of God in Jewish orthodoxy is one where you're having constant quarrels with God. Where I come from, in Islam, the only concept of God is you submit to Him and you obey His commands; no quarreling allowed.

God helps those who fear Him.

I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought.

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

The greatest fear comes when God is a stranger.

He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does not fear the face of God.

The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too much, and God too little.

We've lost the wow of God because we've lost the woe of God. His perfect holiness helps us truly appreciate His amazing grace.

I sometimes struggle with how to properly respond to God’s magnitude in a world bent on ignoring or merely tolerating Him. But know this: God will not be tolerated. He instructs us to worship and fear Him.

For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.

As we fear God more completely, we love Him more perfectly. And 'perfect love casteth out all fear'.

Saints are described as fearing the name of God; they are reverent worshippers; they stand in awe of the Lord's authority; they are afraid of offending Him; they feel their own nothingness in the sight of the Infinite One.

I believe in God. I don't fear man, I fear God.