The Incarnation Birth and Infancy of Jesus Christ Quotes

“St. Ambrose gives us the answer: "He is a little one, that you might be a perfect man; he is bound in swaddling-clothes, that you might be unbound from the fetters of death; he is on earth, that you might be in heaven." 2”
― Alfonso María de Liguori, The incarnation, birth, and infancy of Jesus Christ, or, The mysteries of the faith

“my God, I do wish to repent; and I grieve with my whole soul for having offended Thee ; I wish to love Thee with my whole heart.”
― Alfonso María de Liguori, The incarnation, birth, and infancy of Jesus Christ, or, The mysteries of the faith

“I who have treated Thee worse than any one else. But Thy goodness encourages me, which I feel has borne with me so long, in order at length to pardon me, and to inflame me with Thy love, provided I will but repent and love Thee.”
― Alfonso María de Liguori, The incarnation, birth, and infancy of Jesus Christ, or, The mysteries of the faith

“How many youths, how many of the nobly born, and how many monarchs even, have left wealth, honors, and their very kingdoms, to seek the desert or the cloister, that there, in poverty and obscure seclusion, they might the more unreservedly give them selves up to the love of this their Saviour!”
― Alfonso María de Liguori, The incarnation, birth, and infancy of Jesus Christ, or, The mysteries of the faith

“Whosoever loves, has no other end in loving but to be loved again. God, then, having so clearly loved us, seeks nothing else from us,”
― Alfonso María de Liguori, The incarnation, birth, and infancy of Jesus Christ, or, The mysteries of the faith