Pray, pray and never cease to pray. For, if you pray, your salvation is secured; if you neglect prayer, your perdition is inevitable. Such should be the practice of all preachers and confessors, since all Catholics maintain, that he who prays will infallibly obtain grace, and will be saved. But the number of those who practice prayer is very small, and therefore but few obtain eternal life.
– St. Alphonsus Ligouri, Treatise on Prayer
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This is a great quote, Kristin. I've read spiritual writers (probably St. Louis de Montfort) say that devotion to Mary is a sign of predestination, which reminds me of what St. Alphonsus is saying here. I know that this is good incentive for me to keep working on improving my prayer life!
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