St. Philip Neri said.....

[MarieT]

wonderful and short compact words of wisdom for everyday life......
thanks for posting these since 2017,
they are a wonderful daily source of inspiration and vision

[Denise]

"There is nothing good in this world: Vanitas vanitatum, et omnia vanitas."

Like my Henry (98 next month) always reminds everyone, "Only God is Good"

[Denise]

"We must die at last."

[Denise]

"Beginners in religion ought to exercise themselves principally in meditation on the Four Last Things."

[Denise]

"He who does not go down into hell while he is alive, runs a great risk of going there after he is dead."

[Denise]

"The greatest help to perseverance in the spiritual life is the habit of prayer, especially under the direction of our confessor."

[Denise]

"There is nothing the devil fears so much, or so much tries to hinder, as prayer."

[Denise]

"An excellent method of preserving ourselves from relapsing into serious faults, is to say every evening, 'Tomorrow I may be dead.' "

[Denise]

"A man without prayer is an animal without the use of reason."

[Denise]

"The religious state is indeed the highest, but it is not suitable for all."

[Denise]

"A most excellent means of learning how to pray, is to acknowledge ourselves unworthy of such a benefit, and to put ourselves entirely into the hands of the Lord."

[Denise]

"The true preparation for prayer consists in the exercise of mortification; for he who wishes to give himself up to prayer without mortification, is like a bird wishing to fly before it is fledged."

[Denise]

"We can never arrive at the contemplative life, if we do not first exercise ourselves laboriously in the active life."

[Denise]

"We must exercise the spirit which God gives us in prayer, and follow that; so that, when, for example, it inclines us to meditate on the Passion, we must not wish to meditate on some other mystery."

[Denise]

"We must never pray for a favor for anyone, except conditionally, saying, 'If it please God,' or the like."