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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!
Alphonsus Liguori
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Alphonsus Liguori
Age: 90 †
Born: 1696
Born: September 27
Died: 1787
Died: August 9
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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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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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It is just that he should act with reserve towards those who act with reserve towards him. On the contrary, he gives himself entirely to those souls, who, driving from their hearts everything that is not God, and does not lead them to his love, and giving themselves to him without reserve, truly say to him: My God and my all.
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He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.
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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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True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.
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Love tends to union with the object loved. Now Jesus Christ loves a soul that is in a state of grace with immense love He ardently desires to unite Himself with it. That is what Holy Communion does
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Mary having co-operated in our redemption with so much glory to God and so much love for us, Our Lord ordained that no one shall obtain salvation except through her intercession.
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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.
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Without prayer it is impossible to resist temptations and to keep the commandments.
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We must practice modesty, not only in our looks, but also in our whole deportment, and particularly in our dress, our walk, our conversation, and all similar actions.
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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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A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth.
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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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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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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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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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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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We must show charity towards the sick, who are in greater need of help. Let us take them some small gift if they are poor, or, at least let us go and wait on them and comfort them.
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Do not allow your daughters to be taught letters by a man, though he be a St. Paul or St. Francis of Assissium. The saints are in Heaven.
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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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