St. Philip Neri said.....

[Denise]

"The mole is a blind rat, which always stays in the ground; it eats earth, and hollows it out, but is never satisfied with it: so is the avaricious man or woman."

[Denise]

"Penitents should never make vows without the advice of their spiritual fathers."

[Denise]

If we do make such vows, it is best to make them conditionally: for example, “I make a vow to have two Masses said on St. Lucy’s day, with this bargain, If I can, If I do not forget it, because if I do not remember it I do not wish to be bound.”

[Denise]

When a man has to buy anything, he ought not to do so because he is moved by an attachment to the thing, but from want and necessity; for it will never do to buy attachments.

[Denise]

Certain little voluntary attachments of self-love must be cut through, and then we must dig round them, and then remove the earth, till we get down deep enough to find the place where they are rooted and interlaced together.

[Denise]

A person must be ready to endure, when through a virtuous motive he is mortified by others, and even when God permits him to be in bad odor with others, and regarded and driven away as an infected sheep.

[MarieT]

may God grant us the graces to endure this

His grace is enough

[Denise]

I thought about you when I posted this.

[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."