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True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.
Alphonsus Liguori
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Alphonsus Liguori
Age: 90 †
Born: 1696
Born: September 27
Died: 1787
Died: August 9
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Alphonsus Mary Antony John Cosmas Damian Michael Gaspard de' Liguori Liguori
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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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In temptations against chastity, the spiritual masters advise us, not so much to contend with the bad thought, as to turn the mind to some spiritual, or, at least, indifferent object. It is useful to combat other bad thoughts face to face, but not thoughts of impurity.
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If, on a rare occasion, it is necessary to speak with some severity in order to make a grievous crime felt, we should always, at the conclusion of the rebuke, add some kind words. We must heal wounds, as the Samaritan did, with wine and oil. But as oil floats above all other liquors, so meekness should predominate in all our actions.
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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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All would wish to be saved and to enjoy the glory of paradise but to gain heaven, it is necessary to walk in the straight road that leads to eternal bliss. This road is the observance of the divine commandments. Hence, in his preaching, the Baptist exclaimed: Make straight the way of the Lord.
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Without prayer it is impossible to resist temptations and to keep the commandments.
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A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated.
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Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.
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The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.
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I Love Jesus Christ and that is why I am on fire with the desire to give Him souls, first of all my own, and then an incalculable number of others.
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A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism.
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Let us read the lives of the saints let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying our flesh.
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Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases.
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What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.
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The more a person loves God, the more reason he has to hope in Him. This hope produces in the Saints an unutterable peace, which they preserve even in adversity, because as they love God, and know how beautiful He is to those who love Him, they place all their confidence and find all their repose in Him alone.
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By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it take delight in its sufferings.
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The brightest ornaments in the crown of the blessed in heaven are the sufferings which they have borne patiently on earth.
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Of all devotions, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the greatest after the sacraments, the one dearest to God and the one most helpful to us.
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