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Those who have themselves for a spiritual director have a fool for a spiritual director.
Philip Neri
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Philip Neri
Age: 509
Born: 1515
Born: July 21
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Saint Filippo Neri
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St. Philippo di Neri
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Cast yourself into the arms of God and be very sure that if he wants anything of you, He will fit you for the work and give you strength.
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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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To be without pity for other mens falls, is an evident sign that we shall fall ourselves shortly.
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My Jesus, if you uphold me, I shall not fall.
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We must often remember what Christ said, that not he who begins, but he that perseveres to the end, shall be saved.
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The cross is the gift God gives to his friends.
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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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Do not grieve over the temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us first to be tempted by the opposite vice. Therefore, look upon every temptation as an invitation to grow in a particular virtue and a promise by God that you will be successful, if only you stand fast.
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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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First let a little love find entrance into their hearts, and the rest will follow.
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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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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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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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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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At communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined.
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A joyful heart is more easily made perfect than a downcast one.
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Let us be humble and keep ourselves down: - Obedience! Humility! Detachment!
Philip Neri
We must not trust in ourselves, but take the advice of our spiritual father, and recommend ourselves to everybodys prayers.
Philip Neri
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.
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Without mortification nothing can be done.
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