Alphonsus Liguori Quotes

There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. Some may perchance, with strange surprise, Have blundered into Paradise.

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

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs - let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.

I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David, and for drink I desire His Blood, which is love incorruptible.

Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.

If there is a heaven, I don't know anything else I can do to get there - and neither do you.

Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

I hope, by God's grace, that I am truly a Christian, not deviating from the faith, and that I would rather suffer the penalty of a terrible death than wish to affirm anything outside of the faith or transgress the commandments of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.'

No man can resolve himself into Heaven.

If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!

I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine.

Jesus is the only true way to Heaven.

I used to just want so badly to have afterlife insured and make sure I was going to heaven.

For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.

The wicked man, when he dies, is driven to his grave, but the Christian comes to his grave.

Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except thou "love him above father, mother, or thy own life." This kind of despair is one of the first steps to heaven.

I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

A converted man will not wish to go to heaven alone

Just being the son of Billy Graham won't get me into heaven.

We may live in a culture that believes everyone will be saved, that we are 'justified by death' and all you need to do to go to heaven is die, but God’s Word certainly doesn’t give us the luxury of believing that.

All would wish to be saved and to enjoy the glory of paradise; but to gain heaven, it is necessary to walk in the straight road that leads to eternal bliss. This road is the observance of the divine commandments. Hence, in his preaching, the Baptist exclaimed: Make straight the way of the Lord.