The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.
Alphonsus LiguoriThose who say the Rosary daily and wear the Brown Scapular and who do a little more, will go straight to Heaven.
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 LiguoriSo great is the compassion excited in Mary by our misery, and such is the love that she bears us, that she prays constantly, and relaxes not her efforts in our behalf.
Alphonsus Liguori