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If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for, as an alms, all that we need.
Alphonsus Liguori
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Alphonsus Liguori
Age: 90 †
Born: 1696
Born: September 27
Died: 1787
Died: August 9
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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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Let us thank God for having called us to His holy faith. It is a great gift, and the number of those who thank God for it is small.
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As all our wickedness consists in turning away from our Creator, so all our goodness consists in uniting ourselves with Him.
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He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.
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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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God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.
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True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.
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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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What does it cost us to say: My God help me! Have mercy on me! Is there anything easier than this? And this little will suffice to save us if we be diligent in doing it.
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If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love.
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Mary obtains salvation for all who have recourse to her. Oh! If all sinners had recourse to Mary, who would ever be lost? ... He who is protected by her will be saved he who is not will be lost.
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