Avarice Quote by Philip Neri

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

— Philip Neri

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

— Philip Neri

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

— Philip Neri

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

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

— Philip Neri

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

— Philip Neri

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

— Philip Neri

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

Give me ten truly detached men. and I will convert the world with them.

— Philip Neri

The cross is the gift God gives to his friends.

— Philip Neri

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

Without mortification nothing can be done.

— Philip Neri