St. Philip Neri said.....

Post by **Denise** » Tue Feb 12, 2019 8:33 am

"There is nothing more to the purpose for exciting a spirit of prayer, than the reading of spiritual books."

Post by **Denise** » Wed Feb 13, 2019 8:32 am

"Let a man frequent the holy Sacraments, go to sermons, and be often reading the Lives of Saints."

Post by **Denise** » Thu Feb 14, 2019 7:39 am

"Let a man always think that he has God before his eyes."

Post by **Denise** » Fri Feb 15, 2019 7:18 am

"When a man is in an occasion of sin, let him look what he is doing, get himself out of the occasion, and avoid the sin."

Post by **Denise** » Sat Feb 16, 2019 8:01 am

"There is nothing good in this world: Vanitas vanitatum, et omnia vanitas."

Translation ( Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.) St. Therese was know to repeat this.

Post by **Denise** » Mon Feb 18, 2019 8:13 am

"Beginners in religion ought to exercise themselves principally in meditation on the Four Last Things."

In Christian eschatology, the Four Last Things or four last things of man (Latin: quattuor novissima) are Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell, the four last stages of the soul in life and the afterlife.

Post by **Denise** » Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:28 am

"He who does not go down into hell while he is alive, runs a great risk of going there after he is dead."

Post by **Denise** » Wed Feb 20, 2019 8:12 am

"The greatest help to perseverance in the spiritual life is the habit of prayer, especially under the direction of our confessor."

Post by **Denise** » Thu Feb 21, 2019 8:18 am

"There is nothing the devil fears so much, or so much tries to hinder, as prayer."

Post by **Denise** » Fri Feb 22, 2019 8:59 am

"An excellent method of preserving ourselves from relapsing into serious faults, is to say every evening, 'Tomorrow I may be dead.' "

Post by **Denise** » Sat Feb 23, 2019 5:51 am

"A man without prayer is an animal without the use of reason."

Post by **Denise** » Sun Feb 24, 2019 8:17 am

"The religious state is indeed the highest, but it is not suitable for all."

Post by **Denise** » Mon Feb 25, 2019 6:55 am

"A most excellent means of learning how to pray, is to acknowledge ourselves unworthy of such a benefit, and to put ourselves entirely into the hands of the Lord."

Post by **Denise** » Tue Feb 26, 2019 1:14 pm

"The true preparation for prayer consists in the exercise of mortification; for he who wishes to give himself up to prayer without mortification, is like a bird wishing to fly before it is fledged."

Post by **Denise** » Wed Feb 27, 2019 8:22 am

"We can never arrive at the contemplative life, if we do not first exercise ourselves laboriously in the active life."