St. Philip Neri said.....

Post by **Denise** » Thu Sep 20, 2018 8:56 am

"Perfection cannot be attained without the greatest toil."

Post by **Denise** » Fri Sep 21, 2018 6:46 am

"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."

Post by **Denise** » Sat Sep 22, 2018 8:52 am

"Even in the midst of the crowd we can be going on to perfection."

Post by **Denise** » Sun Sep 23, 2018 8:00 am

"Not everything which is better in itself is better for each man in particular."

Post by **Denise** » Mon Sep 24, 2018 7:06 am

"Be devout to the Madonna, keep yourself from sin, and God will deliver you from your evils."

Post by **Denise** » Tue Sep 25, 2018 7:56 am

"If we wish to keep peace with our neighbors, we should never remind any one of his natural defects."

Post by **Denise** » Wed Sep 26, 2018 8:19 am

"We must sometimes bear with little defects in others, as we have against our own will to bear with natural defects in ourselves."

Post by **Denise** » Fri Sep 28, 2018 8:20 am

"We should not be quick at correcting others, but rather to think of ourselves first."

Post by **Denise** » Sat Sep 29, 2018 7:42 am

"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."

Post by **Denise** » Sun Sep 30, 2018 8:38 am

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

Post by **Denise** » Mon Oct 01, 2018 7:27 am

"In passing from a bad state to a good one there is no need of counsel; but in passing from a good one to a better, time, counsel, and prayer must go to the decision."

Post by **Denise** » Tue Oct 02, 2018 7:33 am

"We must continually pray to God for the conversion of sinners, thinking of the joy there is in heaven both to God and the angels in the conversion of each separate sinner."

Post by **Denise** » Wed Oct 03, 2018 7:15 am

"To speak of ourselves without cause, saying, 'I have said,' 'I have done,' incapacitates us for receiving spiritual consolations."

Johnna · Post by **Johnna** » Wed Oct 03, 2018 1:12 pm

I've never heard of thought about this before, so very thought provoking.

Post by **Denise** » Fri Oct 05, 2018 6:39 am

"Let us despise gold, silver, jewels, and all that the blind and cheated world vainly and ignorantly prizes."