Alphonsus Liguori Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Desire, Saint, Rich

• There is nothing more pleasing to God, than to see a soul who patiently and serenely bears whatever crosses it is sent; this is how love is made, by putting lover and loved one on the same level. . . A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised and humiliated.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Jesus, Love Is, Soul

• I Love Jesus Christ and that is why I am on fire with the desire to give Him souls, first of all my own, and then an incalculable number of others.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Jesus, Numbers, Fire

• "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

• My Jesus! What a lovable contrivance this holy Sacrament was - that You would hide under the appearance of bread to make Yourself loved and to be available for a visit by anyone who desires You!

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Jesus, Desire, Bread

• Love tends to union with the object loved. Now Jesus Christ loves a soul that is in a state of grace with immense love; He ardently desires to unite Himself with it. That is what Holy Communion does

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Jesus, Grace, Soul

• A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Jesus, Soul, Desire

• St. Francis Borgia says that he who desires to consecrate himself to God must, in the first place, trample under his feet all regard for what others will say of him. O my God, why do we not ask what Jesus Christ or his holy mother will think of our conduct?

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Mother, Jesus, Thinking

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