St. Philip Neri said.....

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"Humility is the true guardian of chastity."

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"When a man has fallen he ought to acknowledge it in some such way as this: 'Ah, if I had been humble I should not have fallen!' "

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"We ought to be pleased to hear that others are advancing in the service of God, especially if they are our relations or friends; and we ought to rejoice that they share in whatever spiritual good we may have ourselves."

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"In order the better to gain souls, in visiting the sick, we ought to imagine that what we do for the sick man we are doing for Christ Himself; we shall thus perform this work of mercy with more love and greater spiritual profit."

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"He whose health will not permit him to fast in honor of Christ and our Blessed Lady, will please them much more by giving some alms more than usual."

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"Nothing is more dangerous for beginners in the spiritual life, than to wish to play the master, and to guide and convert others."

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"Beginners should look after their own conversion and be humble, lest they should fancy they had done some great thing, and so should fall into pride."

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"If we wish to help our neighbor, we must reserve neither place, hour, or season, for ourselves."

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"Avoid every kind of singularity, for it is generally the hot-bed of pride, especially spiritual pride."

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"A man must not, however, abstain from doing a good work merely to get out of the way of a temptation to vain-glory."

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"The love of God makes us do great things."

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"We may distinguish three kinds of vain-glory: the first we may call mistress; that is, when vain-glory goes before our works, and we work for the sake of it; the second we may call companion; that is, when a man does not do a work for the sake of vain-glory, but feels complacency in doing it; the third we may call servant; that is, when vain-glory rises in our work, but we instantly repress it. Above all things never let vain-glory be mistress."

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"When vain-glory is companion, it does not take away our merit; but perfection requires that it should be servant."

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"He who works purely for the love of God, desires nothing but His honor, and thus is ready in every thing either to act or not to act, and that not in indifferent matters only, but even in good ones; and he is always resigned to the Will of God."

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"The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years."