Alphonsus Liguori Quotes

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

Love is the motivating principle by which the Lord leads us along the way towards becoming like Him, our perfect example. Our way of life, hour by hour, must be filled with the love of God and love for others. There is no surprise in that, since the Lord proclaimed those as the first and great commandments.

God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus.

The more you forget yourself, the more Jesus will think of you.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Even though I am playing against others, and it is important to get there and win, I believe that Jesus is much more important than all of that.

Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke, I love, as you would have me, God the most; Would lose not Him, but you, must one be lost, Nor with Lot's wife cast back a faithless look Unready to forego what I forsook; This say I, having counted up the cost, This, tho' I be the feeblest of God's host, The sorriest sheep Christ shepherds with His crook. Yet while I love my God the most, I deem That I can never love you overmuch; I love Him more, so let me love you too; Yea, as I apprehend it, love is such I cannot love you if I love not Him. I cannot love Him if I love not you.

A cross borne in simplicity, without the interference of self-love to augment it, is only half a cross. Suffering in this simplicity of love, we are not only happy in spile of the cross, but because of it; for love is pleased in suffering for the Well Beloved, and the cross which forms us into His image is a consoling bond of love.

He [Jesus] has no need of our works but only of our love.

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

The blood that poured from Christ's wounds bought your salvation. If you want to truly value what He did, think of Him hanging on that cross just for you. With that thought in your mind, consider how you should live. He gave Himself freely for you; are you giving yourself fully to Him?

I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught.

Be humble like Mary so that you can be holy like Jesus

We complicate prayer as we complicate many things. It is to love Jesus with undivided love-for you, for me, for all of us. And that undivided love is put into action when we do as Jesus said, love as I have loved you

The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul.

Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!

Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

I want women to love Jesus! That is what I would give every single thing I have for, every earthly good I've got. That is the greatest desire of my heart.

The biggest challenge facing a missionary today is to forget himself and lose himself in the work.

I think that's the true litmus test for someone who has become closer to Jesus: their heart is more loving, accepting, childlike, less believing that they have all the answers and more believing in Him.

The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.