St. Philip Neri said.....

Post by **Denise** » Thu Jun 21, 2018 5:45 am

"The third degree of the spiritual life may be called the angelic life; this is the life which they come to, who, having been exercised for a long time in the taming of their own passions, receive from God a quiet, tranquil, and almost angelic life, even in this world, feeling no trouble or repugnance in anything."

Post by **Denise** » Fri Jun 22, 2018 7:09 am

"Of these three degrees of the spiritual life it is well to persevere in the second, because the Lord will grant the third in His own good time."

Post by **Denise** » Sat Jun 23, 2018 6:57 am

"We must not be too ready to trust young men who have great devotion; we must wait till their wings are grown, and then see what sort of a flight they make."

Post by **Denise** » Sun Jun 24, 2018 7:37 am

"Outward mortifications are a great help towards the acquisition of interior mortification and the other virtues."

Post by **Denise** » Mon Jun 25, 2018 5:53 am

"He who cannot put up with the loss of his honor, can never make any advance in spiritual things."

Post by **Denise** » Tue Jun 26, 2018 5:40 am

"It is generally better to give the body rather too much food than rather too little; for the too much can be easily subtracted, but when a man has injured his constitution by the too little, it is not so easy to get right again."

Post by **Denise** » Wed Jun 27, 2018 8:16 am

"The devil has a crafty custom of sometimes urging spiritual persons to penances and mortifications, in order that by going indiscreet lengths in this way, they may so weaken themselves as to be unable to attend to good works of greater importance; or be so intimidated by the sickliness they have brought upon themselves as to abandon their customary devotions, and at last turn their backs on the service of God."

Post by **Denise** » Thu Jun 28, 2018 7:13 am

"Those who pay a moderate attention to the mortification of their bodies, and direct their main intention to mortify the will and understanding, even in matters of the slightest moment, are more to be esteemed than they who give themselves up exclusively to corporal penances and macerations."

Post by **Denise** » Sat Jun 30, 2018 6:32 am

"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."

Post by **Denise** » Sun Jul 01, 2018 7:39 am

"We ought to make no account of abstinences and fasts, when there is self-will in the matter."

Post by **Denise** » Mon Jul 02, 2018 6:13 am

"Our Blessed Lady is the dispenser of all the favors which the goodness of God concedes to the Sons of Adam."

Post by **Denise** » Thu Jul 05, 2018 6:23 am

"Whenever we do a good work, and somebody else takes the credit of it, we ought to rejoice, and acknowledge it as a gift from God. Anyhow, we ought not to be sorry, because if others diminish our glory before men, we shall recover it with all the more honor before God."

Post by **Denise** » Fri Jul 06, 2018 6:26 am

"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."

Post by **Denise** » Sun Jul 08, 2018 7:12 am

"In order to avoid all risk of vain-glory, we ought to make some of our particular devotions in our own rooms, and never seek for sweetness-es and sensible consolations in public places."

Post by **Denise** » Tue Jul 10, 2018 7:58 am

"When a man is reproved for anything, he ought not to take it too much to heart, for we commit a greater fault by our sadness than by the sin for which we are reproved."