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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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Alphonsus Liguori
Age: 90 †
Born: 1696
Born: September 27
Died: 1787
Died: August 9
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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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All souls in hell are there because they did not pray. All the saints sanctified themselves by prayer.
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Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.
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After the love which we owe Jesus Christ, we must give the chief place in our heart to the love of His Mother Mary.
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There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.
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The saved are few, but we must live with the few if we would be saved with the few. O God, too few indeed they are: yet amongst those few I wish to be!
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O God-Man present in this sacrament for me - what a comfort, what a privilege to know I kneel before God! And to think that this God loves me!... Mary, my mother, help me to love him in return
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It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.
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Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him.
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Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.
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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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To put into practice the teachings of our holy faith, it is not enough to convince ourselves that they are true we must love them. Love united to faith makes us practice our religion.
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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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So great is the compassion excited in Mary by our misery, and such is the love that she bears us, that she prays constantly, and relaxes not her efforts in our behalf.
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Our Faith will never be true unless it is united to that of St. Peter and the Pontiff, his successors.
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Obedience to a confessor is the most acceptable offering which we can make to God, and the most secure way of doing the divine will.
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When we have to reply to anyone who has insulted us, we should be careful to do it always with gentleness. A soft answer extinguishes the fire of wrath.
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Many, however, gives themselves to God, but preserve still in their hearts some attachment to creatures, which prevents them from belonging entirely to God.
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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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Woe to those who despise devotion to Mary! ... The soul cannot live without having recourse to Mary and recommending itself to her. He falls and is lost who does not have recourse to Mary.
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Those who say the Rosary daily and wear the Brown Scapular and who do a little more, will go straight to Heaven.
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