Character Quote by 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 our humility, and not take occasion of pride because of it.”

Philip Neri

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

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

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

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

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

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The cross is the gift God gives to his friends.

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Without mortification nothing can be done.

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