Love & Passion Quote by Alphonsus Liguori

The line works like a rhetorical rebalancing act: it concedes the terrifying scale of God ("infinite Majesty") only to pivot into intimacy ("infinite Goodness and infinite Love"). Liguori is writing into a Catholic culture where divine sovereignty could easily tip into dread - the God who judges, the God who demands. His move is to keep the hierarchy intact ("no greater Lord") while refusing the emotional distance hierarchy can create. He keeps the throne, then pulls it close.

The pairing of "Lord" and "lover" is the engine here. "Lord" names asymmetry: power, obedience, submission. "Lover" smuggles in desire, pursuit, tenderness. By insisting God is the most ardent lover, Liguori reframes devotion as something nearer to being wanted than being policed. The subtext is pastoral and strategic: if you fear God only as Majesty, you will obey; if you experience God as Love, you will return. That is a different spiritual economy - less compliance, more attachment.

Context matters. Liguori, a moral theologian associated with a more compassionate, less scrupulosity-driven approach, is speaking to anxious consciences. "Infinite" repeated three times functions like a corrective for people who measure their worth in finite failures. The sentence doesn't deny judgment; it crowds it out with an overwhelming scale of mercy. Even the superlatives are tactical: the highest authority is simultaneously the most devoted suitor. You don't escape God's rule; you discover it's aimed at your good.