There is no error so fatal in its consequences as the loss of eternal salvation. Other errors may be repaired; if a person lose a situation, he may perhaps in time regain it; if he lose his goods, he may replace them, but if he lose his soul, he has no remedy nor hope of redemption. He can die but once; and if that once his soul be lost, it must be lost forever, and no power can save it for all eternity.
–Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
God says to each of us: “Give me your heart, that is, your will.” We, in turn, cannot offer anything more precious than to say: “Lord, take possession of us; we give our whole will to you; make us understand what it is that you desire of us, and we will perform it.”
–Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases.
–Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
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.
–Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
Perfect love of God means the complete union of our will with God’s.
–Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
Practice abandonment as regards your body, taking and accepting indifferently sickness or health, work or rest — abandonment as regards your soul, cherishing dryness, insensibility, desolation, and accepting them with the same thanksgiving as you would sweetness and consolation.
–Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647- 1690)
