St. Philip Neri said.....

[Denise]

On July 5th when I came in and after I posted and then clicked on the post I was amazed to be able to see this number of hits and get a picture of it. Interesting; just saying.......

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Here was the quote on that day.

Re: St. Philip Neri said....
Post by Denise » 05 Jul 2020 08:17 am

"Whenever we do a good work, and somebody else takes the credit of it, we ought to rejoice, and acknowledge it as a gift from God. Anyhow, we ought not to be sorry, because if others diminish our glory before men, we shall recover it with all the more honor before God."

About the # 3.

The number 3 biblically represents divine wholeness,(TRINITY) completeness and perfection. If there ever was a desire to highlight an idea, thought, event or noteworthy figure in the Bible for their prominence, the number 3 was used to put a divine stamp of completion or fulfillment on the subject.

[June D]

Love it!

[Denise]

"To obtain perfectly the gift of humility, four things are required: to despise the world, to despise no person, to despise one's self, to despise being despised."

[Denise]

"Perfection consists in leading captive our own will, and in playing the king over it."

[Denise]

"A man ought to mortify his understanding in little things, if he wishes easily to mortify it in great ones, and to advance in the way of virtue."

[Denise]

"Without mortification nothing can be done."

[Denise]

"We ought to hope for and love the glory of God by means of a good life."

[Denise]

"St. Peter and the other apostles and apostolic men, seeing the Son of God born in poverty, and then living so absolutely without anything, that He had nowhere to lay His Head, and contemplating Him dead and naked on a cross, stripped themselves also of all things, and took the road of the evangelical counsels."

[Denise]

"Nothing unites the soul to God more closely, or breeds contempt of the world sooner, than being harassed and distressed."

[Denise]

"In this life there is no purgatory; it is either hell or paradise; for to him who serves God truly, every trouble and infirmity turns into consolations, and through all kinds of trouble he has a paradise within himself even in this world; and he who does not serve God truly, and gives himself up to sensuality, has one hell in this world, and another in the next."

[Denise]

"To get good from reading the Lives of the Saints, and other spiritual books, we ought not to read out of curiosity, or skimmingly, but with pauses; and when we feel ourselves warmed, we ought not to pass on, but to stop and follow up the spirit which is stirring in us, and when we feel it no longer then to pursue our reading."

[Denise]

"To begin and end well, devotion to our Blessed Lady, the Mother of God, is nothing less than indispensable."

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"We have no time to go to sleep here, for Paradise was not made for poltroons."

Poltroons are cowards

[Denise]

"We must have confidence in God, who is what He always has been, and we must not be disheartened because things turn out contrary to us."

[Denise]

"Men should not change from a good state of life to another, although it may be better, without taking grave counsel."