Skip to content

Prayer must be humble: God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Here St. James tells us that God does not listen to the prayers of the proud, but resists them; while, on the other hand, he is always ready to hear the prayers of the humble.

— Alphonsus Liguori

Another quote →

Topics

More quotes by Alphonsus Liguori

“But one thing is necessary,” (Luke 10:42), and it is not beauty, not health, not talent. It is the salvation of our immortal souls.

At death all our hope of salvation will come from the testimony of our conscience as to whether or not we are dying resigned to God’s will.

Ungrateful soul, not to forego its own miserable gratifications, it consented to lose God.

Let us examine in what true wisdom consists, and we shall see, in the first point, that sinners are truly foolish, and, in the second, that the saints are truly wise.

While others amass the fortunes of this world, may my only fortune be Thy holy grace.

All Alphonsus Liguori quotes →

You may also like

Be wise;
Soar not too high, to fall; but stoop to rise.

Philip Massinger Duke of Milan (1623)

Those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.

Jesus

At very best, a person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

Harry Emerson Fosdick On Being a Real Person (1943)

Modesty is an unnatural attitude, and one which is only with difficulty taught to children.

Isaac Asimov The Early Asimov Book Two (1972)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Alphonsus Liguori (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.