Alphonsus Liguori Quotes, Thoughts and Images

The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

Those who say the Rosary daily and wear the Brown Scapular and who do a little more, will go straight to Heaven.

There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.

There is no one, after God, who loves us as much as this most loving Mother does.

He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.

After the love which we owe Jesus Christ, we must give the chief place in our heart to the love of His Mother Mary.

He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.

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.

It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.

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.

A true servant of Mary cannot be lost.

He who prays most receives most.

Without prayer it is impossible to resist temptations and to keep the commandments.

He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.

Let us make up for lost time. Let us give to God the time that remains to us.

All souls in hell are there because they did not pray. All the saints sanctified themselves by prayer.

Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you.

Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases.

Perfect love of God means the complete union of our will with God's.

Such is the compassion, such the love which Mary bears us, that she is never tired of praying for us.

What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.

True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.

The means for maintaining perfect love is to accomplish frequent acts of love. Fire is kindled by the wood we cast into it and love is enkindled by acts of love.

The brightest ornaments in the crown of the blessed in heaven are the sufferings which they have borne patiently on earth.

The sufferings endured for God are the greatest proof of our love for Him.

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.

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.

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!