Philip Neri Quotes

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He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but to give alms.

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There is nothing the devil fears so much, or so much tries to hinder, as prayer.

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To preserve our cheerfulness amid sicknesses and troubles, is a sign of a right and good spirit.

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The man who loves God with a true heart, and prizes him above all things, sometimes sheds floods of tears at prayer, and has in abundance of favours and spiritual feelings coming upon him with such vehemence, that he is forced to cry out, "Lord! let me be quiet!

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He who wishes for anything but Christ, does not know what he wishes; he who asks for anything but Christ, does not know what he is asking; he who works, and not for Christ, does not know what he is doing.

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He who is unable to spend a long time together in prayer, should often lift up his mind to God by short prayers.

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In sickness we ought to ask God to give us patience, because it often happens, that when a man gets well, he not only does not do the good he proposed to do when he was sick, but he multiplies his sins and his ingratitude.

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We must not trust in ourselves, but take the advice of our spiritual father, and recommend ourselves to everybodys prayers.

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The stench of impurity before God and the angels is so great, that no stench in the world can equal it.

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As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest of the opposite virtue, liberality.

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They who have been exercised in the service of God for a long time, may in their prayers imagine all sorts of insults offered to them, such as blows, wounds, and the like, and so in order to imitate Christ by their charity, may accustom their hearts beforehand to forgive real injuries when they come.

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Let us pray God, if He gives us any virtue or any gift, to keep it hidden even from ourselves, that we may preserve our humility, and not take occasion of pride because of it.

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We must often remember what Christ said, that not he who begins, but he that perseveres to the end, shall be saved.

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Let us be humble and keep ourselves down: - Obedience! Humility! Detachment!

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Obedience is the true holocaust which we sacrifice to God on the altar of our hearts.

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In this life there is no purgatory; it is either hell or paradise; for to him who serves God truly, every trouble and infirmity turns into consolations, and through all kinds of trouble he has a paradise within himself even in this world: and he who does not serve God truly, and gives himself up to sensuality, has one hell in this world, and another in the next.

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Let us think, if we only got to heaven, what a sweet and easy thing it will be there to be always saying with the angels and the saints, Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus.

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Not to know how to deny our soul its own wishes, is to foment a very hot-bed of vices.

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Let the sick man enter into the Side of Jesus and His most holy Wounds; let him not be afraid, but combat manfully, and he will come forth victorious.

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The greatness of our love of God must be tested by the desire we have of suffering for His love.

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At communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined.

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It is easy to infuse a most fervent devotion into others, even in a short time; but the great matter is - to persevere.

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There is nothing more dangerous in the spiritual life, than to wish to rule ourselves after our own way of thinking.

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The best way to prepare for death is to spend every day of life as though it were the last.

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The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years.

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To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor.

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The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar, to go first to one saint, then to another, to ask a spiritual alms of them with the same earnestness as a poor fellow in the streets would ask an alms of us.

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We must sometimes bear with little defects in others, as we have, against our will, to bear with natural defects in ourselves. If we wish to keep peace with our neighbor, we should never remind anyone of his natural defects.

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Even though a man may be unable to attain such a height of sanctity, he ought to desire it, so as to do at least in desire what he cannot carry out in effect.

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Where there is no great mortification there is no great sanctity.

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