"He who desires anything but God deceives himself,……" — Philip Neri
"He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably."
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Philip Neri
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18 Quotes by Philip Neri
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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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A joyful heart is more easily made perfect than a downcast one.
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First let a little love find entrance into their hearts, and the rest will follow.
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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 Deceives Quotes
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For love deceives the best of woman kind.
— Homer
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That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on…
— Hugh Nibley
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Color deceives continuously.
— Josef Albers
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Let weak and frail man come here suppliantly to adore the Sacrament of Christ, not to discuss high things, or…
— Paul of the Cross
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Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The man who deceives shows more justice than he who does not
— Gorgias
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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
— Plato
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
— Plato
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After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one…
— John Edward
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The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of…
— Alma Gluck
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