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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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Alphonsus Liguori
Age: 90 †
Born: 1696
Born: September 27
Died: 1787
Died: August 9
Catholic Priest
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Lawyer
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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 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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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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Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.
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Mary being destined to negotiate peace between God and man, it was not proper that she should be an accomplice in the disobedience of Adam.
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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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Let us make up for lost time. Let us give to God the time that remains to us.
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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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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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Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him.
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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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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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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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How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?
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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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Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you.
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The sufferings endured for God are the greatest proof of our love for Him.
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The way to Heaven is straight and narrow: they who wish to arrive at that place of bliss by walking in the paths of pleasure shall be disappointed and therefore few reach it, because few are willing to use violence to themselves in resisting temptations.
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It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet that God does not hear us, but permits the temptation to continue troubling us. In such a case, let us understand that God permits even this for our greater good.
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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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