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A joyful heart is more easily made perfect than a downcast one.
Philip Neri
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Philip Neri
Age: 509
Born: 1515
Born: July 21
Catholic Priest
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Florence
Tuscany
Felipe
Saint Neri
Filippo
Saint Neri
Saint Filippo Neri
Philipp
Saint Neri
Philip
Saint Neri
St. Philippo di Neri
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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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To be without pity for other mens falls, is an evident sign that we shall fall ourselves shortly.
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Those who have themselves for a spiritual director have a fool for a spiritual director.
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The great thing is to become Saints.
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Give me ten truly detached men. and I will convert the world with them.
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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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We must sometimes bear with little defects in others, as we have, against our will, to bear with natural defects in ourselves. If we wish to keep peace with our neighbor, we should never remind anyone of his natural defects.
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.
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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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Without mortification nothing can be done.
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Let us think, if we only got to heaven, what a sweet and easy thing it will be there to be always saying with the angels and the saints, Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus.
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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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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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He who always acts under obedience may be assured that he will not have to give an account of his actions to God.
Philip Neri
At communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined.
Philip Neri
The cross is the gift God gives to his friends.
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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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There is nothing the devil fears so much, or so much tries to hinder, as prayer.
Philip Neri
First let a little love find entrance into their hearts, and the rest will follow.
Philip Neri
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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