Philip Neri Quotes

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  • My Jesus, if you uphold me, I shall not fall.

    Jesus   Fall   Ifs  
  • First let a little love find entrance into their hearts, and the rest will follow.

    Heart   Saint   Littles  
  • Let us be humble and keep ourselves down: - Obedience! Humility! Detachment!

    St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.28, St Athanasius Press
  • Not to know how to deny our soul its own wishes, is to foment a very hot-bed of vices.

    Soul   Wish   Bed  
    St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.63, St Athanasius Press
  • Christian joy is a gift of God flowing from a good conscience.

    Christian   Joy   Saint  
  • To be without pity for other mens falls, is an evident sign that we shall fall ourselves shortly.

    Fall   Pity   Evident  
    St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.18, St Athanasius Press
  • 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.

    Men   Desire   May  
    St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.33, St Athanasius Press
  • He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.

    Love   God   Christian  
  • If we wish to keep peace with our neighbours, we should never remind any one of his natural defects.

    "The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri".
  • 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.

    Fall   Humility   Men  
  • We must not trust in ourselves, but take the advice of our spiritual father, and recommend ourselves to everybodys prayers.

    St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.20, St Athanasius Press
  • 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.

    St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.15, St Athanasius Press
  • 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.

    Jesus   Men   Sick  
    St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.21, St Athanasius Press
  • To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor.

    Needs   Virtue   Chastity  
    St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.19, St Athanasius Press
  • He who wishes for goods will never have devotion.

    Wish   Devotion   Goods  
    St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.26, St Athanasius Press
  • The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years.

    Years   Dozen   May  
    St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.38, St Athanasius Press
  • 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.

    Get Well   Men   Giving  
    St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.60, St Athanasius Press
  • 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.

    Humility   Pride   Giving  
    St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.34, St Athanasius Press
  • Heaven is not made for the slothful.

    Heaven   Made  
  • The best way to prepare for death is to spend every day of life as though it were the last.

    Way   Lasts   Best Way  
    St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.48, St Athanasius Press
  • The stench of impurity before God and the angels is so great, that no stench in the world can equal it.

    Angel   World   Equal  
    St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.20, St Athanasius Press
  • 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.

  • Give me ten truly detached men. and I will convert the world with them.

    Men   Giving   Saint  
  • Those who have themselves for a spiritual director have a fool for a spiritual director.

  • To preserve our cheerfulness amid sicknesses and troubles, is a sign of a right and good spirit.

    Saint Philip Neri, Faber, Frederick William Faber (1995). “If God be with Us: The Maxims of St. Philip Neri”, p.49, Gracewing Publishing
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Opposites   Royal   Vests  
    St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.47, St Athanasius Press
  • 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.

    St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.41, St Athanasius Press
  • 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.

  • 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!

    St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.55, St Athanasius Press
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