You must strive with all possible care to please God in such a manner as neither to do nor behold anything, without first consulting Him, and in ever…

- Alphonsus Rodriguez

It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification…

- Alphonsus Rodriguez

Some persons are so inclined to mortify themselves that at every opportunity they have, they do so. What a beautiful practice this is, and how profit…

- Alphonsus Rodriguez

Lord, if Thou knowest that I shall find, on leaving the house, even through obedience, an occasion of offending Thee, I conjure Thee to take away my …

- Alphonsus Rodriguez