St. Philip Neri said.....

[Denise]

"Our enemy the devil, who fights with us in order to vanquish us, seeks to disunite us in our houses, and to breed quarrels, dislikes, contests, and rivalries, because while we are fighting with each other, he comes and conquers us, and makes us more securely his own."

[Denise]

"He who does not think on the benefits he receives from God in this life, and on those greater ones his mercy has prepared in that other life of bliss, does not nourish love to God, but chills and freezes it."

[Denise]

"If a soul could altogether abstain from venial sins, the greatest pain it could have would be to be detained in this life, so great would its desire be of union with God."

[Denise]

"In the persecutions which bad men excite against piety and devotion, we must keep our eyes on God, whom we serve, and on the testimony of a good conscience."

[Denise]

"How patiently Christ, the King and Lord of heaven and earth, bore with the apostles, enduring at their hands many incivilities and misbeliefs, they being but poor and rough fishermen! How much more ought we to bear with our neighbor, if he treats us with incivility."

[Denise]

"We must give ourselves to God altogether."

[Denise]

"God makes all his own the soul that is wholly given to him."

[Denise]

"It is as a general rule a bad sign when a man has not a particular feeling of devotion on the chief feasts of the year."

[Denise]

"Let us reflect that the Word left heaven, and stooped to become man for us."

[Denise]

"Besides pardoning those who persecute us, we ought to feel pity for the delusion they are laboring under."

[Denise]

"To one who really loves God, there is nothing more harassing or burdensome than life."

[Denise]

"Let young men be cheerful, and indulge in the recreations proper to their age, provided they keep out of the way of sin."

[Denise]

"Not to know how to deny our soul its own wishes, is to foment a very hot-bed of vices."

[Denise]

"All created things are liberal, and show the goodness of the Creator: the sun scatters its light; the fire its heat; the tree throws out its arms, which are its branches, and reaches to us the fruit it bears; water, and air, and all nature express the liberality of the Creator, and we, who are His lively image, do not represent Him, but through our degenerate manners deny Him in deeds while we are confessing Him with our mouths."

[MarieT]

powerful and mystical
thank you