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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.

— Alphonsus Liguori

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“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.

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.

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

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