St. Philip Neri said.....

Johnna · Post by **Johnna** » Tue Jan 01, 2019 2:15 pm

(Funny how I seem to ask the previous quote (question) of others and of the world in general, but ask it of myself so less often!)

Post by **Denise** » Wed Jan 02, 2019 7:35 am

"Nulla dies sine linea: Do not let a day pass without doing some good during it."

Post by **Denise** » Thu Jan 03, 2019 7:11 am

"We must not be behind time in doing good; for death will not be behind his time."

Post by **Denise** » Fri Jan 04, 2019 5:31 am

"Happy is the youth, because he has time before him to do good."

Post by **Denise** » Sat Jan 05, 2019 7:35 am

"It is well to choose some one good devotion, and to stick to it, and never to abandon it."

Post by **Denise** » Sun Jan 06, 2019 9:29 am

"He who wishes for anything but Christ, does not know what he wishes; he who asks for anything but Christ, does not know what he is asking; he who works, and not for Christ, does not know what he is doing."

Post by **Denise** » Mon Jan 07, 2019 8:30 am

"Let no one wear a mask, otherwise he will do ill; and if he has one, let him burn it."

Johnna · Post by **Johnna** » Mon Jan 07, 2019 11:39 am

(Is this meant figuratively, literally, or both?)

Post by **Denise** » Mon Jan 07, 2019 11:44 am

IMHO, it means people who wear the mask of deception, making people think they are something they aren't. If it was literal then there would have to be death masks removed from saints and popes. They are really dead and not pretending they aren't.

Johnna · Post by **Johnna** » Tue Jan 08, 2019 2:08 am

Ok, that makes sense!

Post by **Denise** » Tue Jan 08, 2019 8:41 am

"Spiritual persons ought to be equally ready to experience sweetness and consolation in the things of God, or to suffer and keep their ground in drynesses of spirit and devotion, and for as long as God pleases, without their making any complaint about it."

Post by **Denise** » Wed Jan 09, 2019 8:30 am

"God has no need of men."

Post by **Denise** » Thu Jan 10, 2019 6:47 am

"If God be with us, there is no one else left to fear."

Post by **Denise** » Fri Jan 11, 2019 8:20 am

"He who wishes to be perfectly obeyed, should give but few orders."

Post by **Denise** » Sat Jan 12, 2019 7:38 am

"A man should keep himself down, and not busy himself in mirabilibus super se." (things to high for him)