If a man finds it very hard to forgive injuries, let him look at a Crucifix, and think that Christ shed all His Blood for him, and not only forgave His enemies, but even prayed His Heavenly Father to forgive… — 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
Not to know how to deny our soul its own wishes, is to foment a very hot-bed of vices. — Philip Neri Copy Share
The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years. — Philip Neri Copy Share
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
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
At communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined. — Philip Neri Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
