Alphonsus Liguori Quotes

Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. That's not a typo. The Bible is a record of the blessed bad. The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; it's a witness to God making it down to the worst people.

I'm not praying for God to save me from cancer. I'm not. God will enlighten me when the time comes. And if I've done the right thing, I will be enlightened. And if I believe, I'll be saved. And that's all he promises me.

Nothing but a miracle of sovereign mercy could have arrested and saved me from eternal perdition. How I could have so long resisted the entreaties, the prayers, and the tears of my dear parents, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, is, to me, a wonder entirely incomprehensible.

The Lord saved my soul.

My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.

God saved me.

I am one imperfect man saved by God's grace.

Jesus intercedes for us each day. Let us pray: Lord, have mercy on me; intercede for me!

God's forgiveness extends to the worst offenders and to anyone who wishes to receive it-not because of who we are, but because of who He is.

God forbid that all children, of whom daily so great a multitude die, would perish, but that also for these, the merciful God, who wishes no one to perish, has procured some remedy unto salvation.

Salvation is an act of God. It is initiated by God, wrought by God, and sustained by God.

Salvation is all about the grace of God. There is absolutely nothing that you can do to save yourself or earn God's favor.

The gospel is not for you who can save yourselves, but for those who are lost.

We are dependent on God's power through every step of our redemption.

It is only the Lord who is able to give [unbelievers] repentance and recover them out of Satan's snare.

God saved you for Himself; God saved you by Himself; God saved you from Himself.

And it is not repentance that saves me — repentance is only the sign that I realize what God has done through Christ Jesus.

The same hand that stilled the seas stills your guilt. The same hand that cleansed the Temple cleanses your heart. The hand is the hand of God. The nail is the nail of God. And as the hands of Jesus opened for the nail, the doors of heaven opened for you.

I do not believe that God answers the prayer of any unredeemed Gentile or Jew

Every sinner must be quickened by the same life, made obedient to the same gospel, washed in the same blood, clothed in the same righteousness, filled with the same divine energy, and eventually taken up to the same heaven, and yet in the conversion of no two sinners will you find matters precisely the same.

The glory of the salvation of souls belongs to God, and to Him alone.

Jesus is God's way of refusing to give up his dream for the world.

He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.

Repentance is a gift of God's grace.

Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.