Alphonsus Liguori

“He who prays is certain to be saved. He who does not pray is certain to be damned.”

“Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.”

“The sovereign proof of love is to suffer for the one who is loved.”

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

“He who has a true maternal devotion to the Virgin Mary will never be lost.”

“True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in blessing those who curse us.”

“The saints are sinners who kept on trying.”

“He who does not meditate is like a man who never looks in the mirror.”

“A single 'Hail Mary' is more pleasing to God than a thousand blasphemies.”

“Humility is the mother of many virtues.”

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

“Patience obtains all things.”

“There are two things that I have always observed: to have no will of my own, and to have no attachment to the world.”

“Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great heart and a willing mind.”

“To be a saint is to be inflamed with the love of God.”

“The priest is not a priest for himself; he is a priest for you.”