Philip Neri Quotes
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My Jesus, if you uphold me, I shall not fall.
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First let a little love find entrance into their hearts, and the rest will follow.
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Let us be humble and keep ourselves down: - Obedience! Humility! Detachment!
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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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Christian joy is a gift of God flowing from a good conscience.
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To be without pity for other mens falls, is an evident sign that we shall fall ourselves shortly.
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Even though a man may be unable to attain such a height of sanctity, he ought to desire it, so as to do at least in desire what he cannot carry out in effect.
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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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If we wish to keep peace with our neighbours, we should never remind any one of his natural defects.
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Humility is the safeguard of chastity. In the matter of purity, there is no greater danger than not fearing the danger. For my part, when I find a man secure of himself and without fear, I give him up for lost. I am less alarmed for one who is tempted and who resists by avoiding the occasions, than for one who is not tempted and is not careful to avoid occasions. When a person puts himself in an occasion, saying, I shall not fall, it is an almost infallible sign that he will fall, and with great injury to his soul.
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We must not trust in ourselves, but take the advice of our spiritual father, and recommend ourselves to everybodys prayers.
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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 beggar, to go first to one saint, then to another, to ask a spiritual alms of them with the same earnestness as a poor fellow in the streets would ask an alms of us.
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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 he will come forth victorious.
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To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor.
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He who wishes for goods will never have devotion.
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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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In sickness we ought to ask God to give us patience, because it often happens, that when a man gets well, he not only does not do the good he proposed to do when he was sick, but he multiplies his sins and his ingratitude.
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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 our humility, and not take occasion of pride because of it.
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Heaven is not made for the slothful.
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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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The stench of impurity before God and the angels is so great, that no stench in the world can equal it.
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It is an old custom of the servants of God to have some little prayer ready and to be frequently darting them up to heaven during the day, lifting their minds to God out of the mire of this world.
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Give me ten truly detached men. and I will convert the world with them.
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Those who have themselves for a spiritual director have a fool for a spiritual director.
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To preserve our cheerfulness amid sicknesses and troubles, is a sign of a right and good spirit.
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The perfection of a Christian consists in mortifying his will for the love of Christ. Where there is no great mortification, there is no great sanctity.
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As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest of the opposite virtue, liberality.
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They who have been exercised in the service of God for a long time, may in their prayers imagine all sorts of insults offered to them, such as blows, wounds, and the like, and so in order to imitate Christ by their charity, may accustom their hearts beforehand to forgive real injuries when they come.
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During mental prayer, it is well, at times, to imagine that many insults and injuries are being heaped upon us, that misfortunes have befallen us, and then strive to train our heart to bear and forgive these things patiently, in imitation of our Saviour. This is the way to acquire a strong spirit.
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The man who loves God with a true heart, and prizes him above all things, sometimes sheds floods of tears at prayer, and has in abundance of favours and spiritual feelings coming upon him with such vehemence, that he is forced to cry out, "Lord! let me be quiet!
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