Philip Neri Quotes

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• During mental prayer, it is well, at times, to imagine that many insults and injuries are being heaped upon us, that misfortunes have befallen us,…
• "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…
• If we wish to keep peace with our neighbor, we should never remind anyone of his natural defects.
• Do not grieve over the temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us first to…
• 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…
• 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…
• Cast yourself into the arms of God and be very sure that if he wants anything of you, He will fit you for the work…
• A joyful heart is more easily made perfect than a downcast one.
• First let a little love find entrance into their hearts, and the rest will follow.
• He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.
• Give me ten truly detached men. and I will convert the world with them.
• We are not saints yet, but we, too, should beware. Uprightness and virtue do have their rewards, in self-respect and in respect from others, and…
• Christian joy is a gift of God flowing from a good conscience.
• The great thing is to become Saints.
• 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…
• 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,…
• Without mortification nothing can be done.
• Where there is no great mortification there is no great sanctity.

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