Cheerfulness Quote by Philip Neri

“To preserve our cheerfulness amid sicknesses and troubles, is a sign of a right and good spirit.”

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

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

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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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The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a…

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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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Let the sick man enter into the Side of Jesus and His most holy Wounds; let him not be afraid, but combat manfully, and…

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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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Let us pray God, if He gives us any virtue or any gift, to keep it hidden even from ourselves, that we may preserve…

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Without mortification nothing can be done.

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I have observed that in comedies the best actor plays the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the fine gentleman or hero. Thus…

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Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control…

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Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.

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