St. Philip Neri said.....

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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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"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."

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"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."

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

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"We ought to desire to be in such a condition as to want sixpence, and not be able to get it."

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

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Let us learn here below to give God the confession of praise which we ought to hope to give Him in heaven above

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"He who wishes to go to Paradise must be an honest man and a good Christian, and not give heed to dreams."

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"Fathers and mothers of families should bring up their children virtuously, looking at them rather as God’s children than their own; and to count life and health, and all they possess, as loans which they hold of God."

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"In saying the Pater Noster, we ought to reflect that we have God for our Father in heaven, and so go on making a sort of meditation of it word by word."

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"To make ourselves disaffected to the things of the world, it is a good thing to think seriously of the end of them, saying to ourselves, 'And then? And then?'”

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"The devil, who is a most haughty spirit, is never more completely mastered than by humility of heart, and a simple, clear, undisguised manifestation of our sins and temptations to our confessor."

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"We ought not ordinarily to believe prophecies or to desire them, because it is possible there may be many deceits and snares of the devil therein."

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"It is a most useful thing, when we see another doing any spiritual good to his neighbor, to seek by prayer to have a part in that same good which the Lord is working by the hand of another."