Skip to content

Let him who has committed one mortal sin cast a glance upon the Hell which he has deserved, and thus will he suffer with patience every contempt and every pain.

— Alphonsus Liguori

Another quote →

Topics

Patience

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.

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.

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.

All Alphonsus Liguori quotes →

You may also like

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

Benjamin Disraeli Contarini Fleming (1832)

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

Leo Tolstoy War and Peace (1865)

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

Leo Tolstoy War and Peace (1865)

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Plutarch

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.