Alphonsus Liguori Quotes

A man who fears not God, will break all his laws with an easy conscience, but one who is the favorite of heaven, who has been indulged to sit at royal banquets, who knows the eternal love of God to him, cannot bear that there should be any evil way in him that might grieve the Spirit and bring dishonor to the name of Christ. A very little sin, as the world calls it, is a very great sin to a truly awakened Christian.

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!

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.

I do believe in Christ, but I would not hold myself up as any paragon of virtue at all - far from it, really.

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!

The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.

I grew up Catholic. We went to confession on Saturday, stood in the shortest line, since it led to the priest who gave the easiest penance - usually a few Our Fathers and Hail Marys. We confessed in private, prayed our penance and our souls were clean.

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

It is not enough to be delivered from sin; it is enough to be delivered to righteousness.

The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization

I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God recognizes I will do this and forgives me.

A lot of Mexican Catholic dogma, the way it's taught, it's about existing in a state of grace, which I found impossible to reconcile with the much darker view of the world and myself, even as a child.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

I was raised Catholic, so guilt shackles you from acting like a complete fool all the time.