A joyful heart is more easily made perfect than a downcast one. Philip Neri More Quotes by Philip Neri More Quotes From Philip Neri In sickness we ought to ask God to give us patience, because it often happens, that when a man gets well, he not only does not do the good he proposed to do when he was sick, but he multiplies his sins and his ingratitude. Philip Neri get-well giving men We must not trust in ourselves, but take the advice of our spiritual father, and recommend ourselves to everybodys prayers. Philip Neri prayer spiritual father We must often remember what Christ said, that not he who begins, but he that perseveres to the end, shall be saved. Philip Neri persevere remember christ To be without pity for other mens falls, is an evident sign that we shall fall ourselves shortly. Philip Neri pity evident fall Not to know how to deny our soul its own wishes, is to foment a very hot-bed of vices. Philip Neri bed soul wish They who have been exercised in the service of God for a long time, may in their prayers imagine all sorts of insults offered to them, such as blows, wounds, and the like, and so in order to imitate Christ by their charity, may accustom their hearts beforehand to forgive real injuries when they come. Philip Neri forgiveness real prayer Even though a man may be unable to attain such a height of sanctity, he ought to desire it, so as to do at least in desire what he cannot carry out in effect. Philip Neri desire may men Without mortification nothing can be done. Philip Neri mortification attachment done The stench of impurity before God and the angels is so great, that no stench in the world can equal it. Philip Neri equal angel world He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but to give alms. Philip Neri vices wish giving He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably. Philip Neri christian god love To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor. Philip Neri chastity virtue needs He who wishes for goods will never have devotion. Philip Neri goods devotion wish Let the sick man enter into the Side of Jesus and His most holy Wounds; let him not be afraid, but combat manfully, and he will come forth victorious. Philip Neri sick men jesus
