St. Philip Neri said.....

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"Buffoonery incapacitates a person from receiving any additional spirituality from God."

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"Nay more, buffoonery roots up the little spirituality a man may have already acquired."

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"At table, especially where there are guests, we ought to eat every kind of food, and not say, 'I like this,' and 'I do not like that.' "

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"Human language cannot express the beauty of a soul which dies in a state of grace."

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"If a man finds it very hard to forgive injuries, let him look at a crucifix, and think that Christ has shed all His Blood for him, and not only forgave his enemies, but prayed the Eternal Father to forgive them also."

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"Let him remember also that when he says the Pater Noster every day, instead of asking pardon for his sins, he is calling down vengeance upon them."

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"Men are generally the carpenters of their own crosses."

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"Let us concentrate ourselves so completely in the divine love, and enter so far into the living fountain of wisdom, through the wounded Side of our Incarnate God, that we may deny ourselves and our self-love, and so be unable to find our way out of that Wound again."

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"We must not give up praying and asking, because we do not get what we ask all at once."

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"He who is unable to spend a long time together in prayer, should often lift up his mind to God by ejaculations."

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"We must often remember what Christ said, that not he who begins, but he that perseveres to the end, shall be saved."

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"We ought to abhor every kind of affectation, whether in talking, dressing, or anything else."

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"When a scrupulous person has once made up his mind that he has not consented to a temptation, he must not reason the matter over again to see whether he has really consented or not, for the same temptations often return by making this sort of reflections."

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"If those who are molested by scruples wish to know whether they have consented to a suggestion or not, especially in thoughts, they should see whether, during the temptation, they have always had a lively love to the virtue opposed to the vice in respect of which they were tempted, and hatred to that same vice, and this is mostly a good proof that they have not consented."

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The scrupulous should remit themselves always and in everything to the judgment of their confessor, and accustom themselves to have a contempt for their own scruples.