Alphonsus Liguori Quotes

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

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

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

Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.

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.

You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.

The great commandment of life is to love the Lord.

It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise.

I fear God and respect God and love God.

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.

God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts.

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.

No, God does not need us to love Him. But oh, how we need to love God! For what we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are - and who we will become.

You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason he is to be loved.

Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.

I'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

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

Train our children to love God.

Sometimes when God brings things into an individual's life, it makes them totally depend on Him.

If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it.

We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.

Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command!