Alphonsus Liguori Quotes

If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation.

The Devil doesn't fear austerity but holy obedience.

Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.

Obedience is the pathway to holiness.

A ton of prayer will never produce what an ounce of obedience will.

The only way to acquire spiritual knowledge and keep It burning brightly is to be humble, prayerful, and to strive diligently to keep all of the commandments.

I won't stick around to see how much temptation I can take. God is not impressed with my ability to stand up to sin. He is more impressed by the obedience I show when I run from it.

Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.

It always helps to have a bit of prayer in your back pocket. At the end of the day, you have to have something, and for me, that is God, Jesus, my Catholic upbringing, my faith.

Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the commandments, we will not have to redecide which path to take when temptation comes our way.

My faith guides my life.

Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

You must have faith to pray. You must have faith to ponder the word of God. You must have faith to do those things and go to those places which invite the Spirit of Christ and the Holy Ghost.

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

Allah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.

The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.

I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.

Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.

We are all on a journey of faith, and we have to polish that faith.

Every day, I get closer to God. Every day, my will to do the right thing gets stronger.

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

Don't be discouraged if the answer to your prayer does not come immediately. Study, ponder, and pray, sincerely having faith, and live the commandments.

The road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.