St. Philip Neri said.....

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"Fathers and mothers of families should bring up their children virtuously, looking at them rather as God's children than their own; and to count life and health, and all they possess, as loans which they hold of God."

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In saying the Pater Noster, we ought to reflect that we have God for our Father in heaven, and so go on making a sort of meditation of it word by word.

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"To make ourselves disaffected to the things of the world, it is a good thing to think seriously of the end of them, saying to ourselves, 'And then? And then?'"

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"The devil, who is a most haughty spirit, is never more completely mastered than by humility of heart, and a simple, clear, undisguised manifestation of our sins and temptations to our confessor."

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"We ought not ordinarily to believe prophecies or to desire them, because it is possible there may be many deceits and snares of the devil therein."

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"It is a most useful thing, when we see another doing any spiritual good to his neighbor, to seek by prayer to have a part in that same good which the Lord is working by the hand of another."

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"At communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined."

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"To him who truly loves God, nothing more displeasing can happen than the lack of occasion to suffer for Him."

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"We ought to hate no one, for God never comes where there is no love of our neighbors."

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"We must accept our own death and that of our relations when God shall send it to us, and not desire it at any other time; for it is sometimes necessary that it should happen at that particular moment for the good of our own and their souls."

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"The perfection of a Christian consists in knowing how to mortify himself for the love of Christ."

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"He who desires ecstasies and visions does not know what he is desiring."

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"As for those who run after visions, dreams, and the like, we must lay hold of them by the feet and pull them to the ground by force, lest they should fall into the devil's net."

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"According to the rules of the fathers and ancient monks, whoever wishes to advance in perfection must hold the world in no reputation."

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"There is nothing more displeasing to God, than our being inflated with self-esteem."