Humility is the safeguard of chastity. In the matter of purity, there is no greater danger than not fearing the danger. For my part, when I find a man secure of himself and without fear, I give him up for… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor. — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
The best way to prepare for death is to spend every day of life as though it were the last. — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
Not to know how to deny our soul its own wishes, is to foment a very hot-bed of vices. — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years. — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
There is nothing more dangerous in the spiritual life, than to wish to rule ourselves after our own way of thinking. — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
At communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined. — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
Let the sick man enter into the Side of Jesus and His most holy Wounds; let him not be afraid, but combat manfully, and… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
Give me ten truly detached men. and I will convert the world with them. — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
Let us pray God, if He gives us any virtue or any gift, to keep it hidden even from ourselves, that we may preserve… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
It is an old custom of the servants of God to have some little prayer ready and to be frequently darting them up to… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but to give… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
The perfection of a Christian consists in mortifying his will for the love of Christ. Where there is no great mortification, there is no… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
