When one seeks…
One is not entirely for God when one seeks something that is not God.
–Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
You will die a saint…
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.
–Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
Grieve not for ourselves…
If we have any natural defect, either in mind or body, let us not grieve and feel sorry for ourselves. Who can tell whether, if we had been given a larger share of ability or stronger health, or greater wealth, we would have possessed them to the destruction of our soul!
–Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
To enrich us, Jesus became poor…
In order to enrich us with true riches, Jesus Christ chose to be a poor man, as the Apostle writes, ‘For your sakes He became poor, that by His poverty ye might become rich.’ He chose to be poor in order to teach us by his example to despise earthly blessings; and thus to enrich us with heavenly blessings, which are infinitely more precious, and which last forever. Wherefore he declared that whoever did not renounce every species of attachment to this earth could not be his true disciple.
— Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
We must detach ourselves…
We must detach ourselves from everything, and especially from ourselves, by continually thwarting our self-love. For example, a certain thing pleases us; we must leave it for the very reason that it pleases us. A certain person has injured us; we must do him good for this very reason. In a word, we must desire and not desire, exactly as God desires or does not desire, without inclination to any one thing; because we do not know that what we ourselves wish is the will of God.
–Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
Through the cross…
Our Lord who saved the world through the Cross will only work for the good of souls through the Cross.
–Saint Madeline Sophie Barat (1779-1865)
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