Without prayer it is impossible to resist temptations and to keep the commandments.
Alphonsus LiguoriLet your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases.
Alphonsus LiguoriLove tends to union with the object loved. Now Jesus Christ loves a soul that is in a state of grace with immense love; He ardently desires to unite Himself with it. That is what Holy Communion does
Alphonsus LiguoriHe who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.
Alphonsus Liguori