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What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.

Alphonsus Liguori

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Alphonsus Liguori
Age: 90 †
Born: 1696
Born: September 27
Died: 1787
Died: August 9
Catholic Priest
Composer
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Napoli
Alfonso Maria de'
saint Liguori
Alfonso Maria de' Liguori
Alphonsus Mary Antony John Cosmas Damian Michael Gaspard de' Liguori Liguori
St. Alphonse Maria di Liguori
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He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.
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With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him.
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Were you to ask what are the means of overcoming temptations, I would answer: The first means is prayer the second is prayer the third is prayer and you should you ask me a thousand times, I would repeat the same.
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There is no one, after God, who loves us as much as this most loving Mother does.
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Perfect love of God means the complete union of our will with God's.
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All souls in hell are there because they did not pray. All the saints sanctified themselves by prayer.
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He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.
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Happy he that knows Thee, even if he knows nothing else, says St. Augustine. If we knew all the sciences and knew not how to love Jesus Christ, our knowledge shall profit us nothing to eternal life. But if we know how to love Jesus Christ, we shall know all things, and shall be happy for eternity.
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If you embrace all things in this life as coming from the hands of God, and even embrace death to fulfill His holy will, assuredly you will die a saint.
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Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love.
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To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.
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