It is an old custom of the servants of God to have some little prayer ready and to be frequently darting them up to heaven during the day, lifting their minds to God out of the mire of this world. — 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
