St. Philip Neri said.....

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"Scruples ought to be most carefully avoided, as they disquiet the mind, and make a man melancholy."

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"Let us throw ourselves into the arms of God, and be sure that if He wishes anything of us, He will make us good for all He desires us to do for Him."

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"Nothing helps a man more than prayer."

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"Idleness is a pestilence to a Christian man; we ought always therefore to be doing something, especially when we are alone in our rooms, lest the devil should come in and catch us idle."

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"We ought always to be afraid, and never put any confidence in ourselves; for the devil assaults us on a sudden, and darkens our understanding; and he who does not live in fear is overcome in a moment, because he has not the help of the Lord."

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"The great thing is to become saints."

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"In order to enter Paradise we must be well justified and well purified."

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"Let the young man look after the flesh, and the old man after avarice, and we shall all be saints together."

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"Where there is no great mortification there is no great sanctity."

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"The sanctity of a man lies in the breadth of three fingers (the forehead); that is to say, in mortifying the understanding, which would fain reason upon things."

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"He who really wishes to become a saint must never defend himself, except in a few rare cases, but always acknowledge himself in fault, even when what is alleged against him is untrue."

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"What we know of the virtues of the saints is the least part of them."

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"The relics of the saints ought to be venerated, and we may laudably keep them in our room; but it is not well, unless for some grave occasion, to wear them on our persons, because it will often happen then that they are not treated with all the respect which is becoming."

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"The old patriarchs possessed riches, and had wives and children, but they lived without defiling their affections with these things, although they possessed them, because they only allowed themselves the use of them, and were ready to abandon them in whatever way the Majesty of God might require of them."

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"We ought to pray God importunately to increase in us every day the light and heat of his goodness."