Philip Neri Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Cast yourself into the arms of God and be very sure that if he wants anything of you, He will fit you for the work and give you strength.

  Philip Neri

  Giving, Want, Arms

• Humility is the safeguard of chastity. In the matter of purity, there is no greater danger than not fearing the danger. For my part, when I find a man secure of himself and without fear, I give him up for lost. I am less alarmed for one who is tempted and who resists by avoiding the occasions, than for one who is not tempted and is not careful to avoid occasions. When a person puts himself in an occasion, saying, I shall not fall, it is an almost infallible sign that he will fall, and with great injury to his soul.

  Philip Neri

  Fall, Humility, Men

• The cross is the gift God gives to his friends.

  Philip Neri

  Giving, Crosses

• Give me ten truly detached men. and I will convert the world with them.

  Philip Neri

  Men, Giving, Saint

• Let us pray God, if He gives us any virtue or any gift, to keep it hidden even from ourselves, that we may preserve our humility, and not take occasion of pride because of it.

  Philip Neri

  Humility, Pride, Giving

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.34, St Athanasius Press

• He who always acts under obedience may be assured that he will not have to give an account of his actions to God.

  Philip Neri

  Giving, May, Action

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.10, St Athanasius Press

• 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

  Giving, Wish, Vices

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.46, St Athanasius Press

• 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, Men, Giving

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.60, St Athanasius Press

• In this life there is no purgatory; it is either hell or paradise; for to him who serves God truly, every trouble and infirmity turns into consolations, and through all kinds of trouble he has a paradise within himself even in this world: and he who does not serve God truly, and gives himself up to sensuality, has one hell in this world, and another in the next.

  Philip Neri

  Giving, Doe, World

  Saint Philip Neri, Faber, Frederick William Faber (1995). “If God be with Us: The Maxims of St. Philip Neri”, p.47, Gracewing Publishing

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