"A joyful heart is more easily made perfect……" — Philip Neri
"A joyful heart is more easily made perfect than a downcast one."
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18 Quotes by Philip Neri
Philip Neri has 18 quotes on this site.
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During mental prayer, it is well, at times, to imagine that many insults and injuries are being heaped upon us,…
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"If a man finds it very hard to forgive injuries, let him look at a Crucifix, and think that Christ…
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If we wish to keep peace with our neighbor, we should never remind anyone of his natural defects.
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Do not grieve over the temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He…
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It is an old custom of the servants of God to have some little prayer ready and to be frequently…
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Let us think, if we only got to heaven, what a sweet and easy thing it will be there to…
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Cast yourself into the arms of God and be very sure that if he wants anything of you, He will…
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First let a little love find entrance into their hearts, and the rest will follow.
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He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.
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Give me ten truly detached men. and I will convert the world with them.
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We are not saints yet, but we, too, should beware. Uprightness and virtue do have their rewards, in self-respect and…
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Christian joy is a gift of God flowing from a good conscience.
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More Downcast Quotes
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one of 15 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, "For my sake, the entire world was created."
— Baal Shem Tov
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And in that narrow cockpit I wept, as I shall never weep again, when I felt the concrete brush against…
— Unknown Author
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When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man,…
— Ovid
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Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems…
— Patrick Kavanagh
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I have often been downcast, but never in despair;
— Anne Frank
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I would go to the deeps a hundred times a cheer a downcast spirit.
— Charles Spurgeon
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I was the one who was always scowling, downcast. I tried to make sure I looked like that when I…
— Johnny Ramone
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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting…
— Anne Frank
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I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to…
— Charles Spurgeon
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The woman was silent, her eyes on the floor. Shimamura had come to a point where he knew he was…
— Yasunari Kawabata
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He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of…
— Aldo Leopold
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