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Alphonsus Liguori Quotes about Prayer

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Know also that you will probably gain more by praying fifteen minutes before the Blessed Sacrament than by all the other spiritual exercises of the day. True, Our Lord hears our prayers anywhere, for He has made the

Know also that you will probably gain more by praying fifteen minutes before the Blessed Sacrament than by all the other spiritual exercises of the day. True, Our Lord hears our prayers anywhere, for He has made the promise, 'Ask, and you shall receive,' but He has revealed to His servants that those who visit Him in the Blessed Sacrament will obtain a more abundant measure of grace.

Alphonsus Liguori
Faith, Spiritual, Prayer

Whoever prays is certainly saved. He who does not is certainly damned. All the blessed have been saved by prayer. All the damned have been lost through not praying. If they had prayed they would not have been lost. And this is, and will be their greatest torment in hell: to think how easily they might have been saved, just by asking God for His grace, but that now it is too late - their time of prayer is gone.

Alphonsus Liguori
Prayer, Blessed, Thinking

Were you to ask what are the means of overcoming temptations, I would answer: The first means is prayer; the second is prayer; the third is prayer; and you should you ask me a thousand times, I would repeat the same.

Alphonsus Liguori
Prayer, Mean, Temptation

He who prays most receives most.

Alphonsus Liguori
Prayer, Praying

Jesus is the mediator of justice; Mary obtains for us grace; for, as St. Bernard, St. Bonaventure, St. Bernardine of Siena, St. Germanus, St. Antoninus, and others say, it is the will of God to dispense through the hands of Mary whatever graces he is pleased to bestow upon us. With God, the prayers of the saints are the prayers of His friends, but the prayers of Mary are the prayers of His mother.

Alphonsus Liguori
Mother, Jesus, Prayer
Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, Catholic Way Publishing (2016). “The Saint Alphonsus de Liguori Collection [30 Books]”, p.623, Catholic Way Publishing

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

Alphonsus Liguori
Prayer, Temptation, Impossible
Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, Catholic Way Publishing (2016). “The Saint Alphonsus de Liguori Collection [30 Books]”, p.1218, Catholic Way Publishing

It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet that God does not hear us, but permits the temptation to continue troubling us. In such a case, let us understand that God permits even this for our greater good.

Alphonsus Liguori
Prayer, Perfection, Temptation
"The Great Means of Salvation and of Perfection".

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

Alphonsus Liguori
Prayer, Soul, Saint

Let us remember the devil labors hard to disturb us at the time of recollection in order to make us abandon it. Let him then who omits mental prayer on account of distractions be persuaded that he gives delight to the devil.

Alphonsus Liguori
Prayer, Order, Giving

The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.

Alphonsus Liguori
Retirement, Prayer, Mean
Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, Aeterna Press (2016). “The True Spouse of Jesus Christ”, p.24, Aeterna Press

"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land." When the soul, like the solitary turtle-dove, retires and recollects itself in meditation to converse with God, then the flowers, that is, good desires, appear; then comes the time of pruning, that is, the correction of faults that are discovered in mental prayer.

Alphonsus Liguori
Prayer, Flower, Turtles

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