St. Philip Neri said.....

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"We must never trust ourselves, for it is the devil’s way first to get us to feel secure, and then to make us fall."

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"We ought to fear and fly temptations of the flesh, even in sickness, and in old age itself, aye, and so long as we can open and shut our eyelids, for the spirit of incontinence gives no truce either to place, time, or person."

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"Our sweet Christ, the Word Incarnate, has given Himself to us for everything that was necessary for us, even to the hard and ignominious death upon the cross."

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"One of the most efficacious means of keeping ourselves chaste, is to have compassion for those who fall through their frailty, and never to boast in the least of being free, but with all humility to acknowledge that whatever we have is from the mercy of God."

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"In the matter of purity there is no greater danger than the not fearing the danger: when a man does not distrust himself, and is without fear, it is all over with him."

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"The devil generally makes use of the weaker sex when he wishes to cause us to fall."

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"In order to begin well, and to finish better, it is quite necessary to hear Mass every day, unless there be some lawful hindrance in the way."

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"A most excellent means of keeping ourselves pure, is to lay open all our thoughts, as soon as possible, to our confessor with the greatest sincerity, and keep nothing hidden in ourselves."

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"To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor."

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"Let a man who desires the first place take the last."

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"As soon as a man feels that he is tempted, he should fly to God, and devoutly utter that ejaculation which the fathers of the desert so much esteemed: Deus in adjutorium meum intende; Domine ad adjuvandum me festina (O God, come to my assistance; O Lord, make haste to help me); or that verse, cor mundum crea in me Deus (Create a clean heart in me, O God)."

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"When sensual thoughts come into the mind, we ought immediately to make use of our minds, and fix them instantaneously upon something or other, no matter what."

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Never say, "What great things the Saints do," but, "What great things God does in His Saints.”

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"In the warfare of the flesh, only cowards gain the victory; that is to say, those who fly."

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"We should be less alarmed for one who is tempted in the flesh, and who resists by avoiding the occasions, than for one who is not tempted and is not careful to avoid the occasions."