Philip Neri Quotes About Saints

Quotes about: Saints

• The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar, to go first to one saint, then to another, to ask a spiritual alms of them with the same earnestness as a poor fellow in the streets would ask an alms of us.

  Philip Neri

  Spiritual, Saint, Firsts

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.15, St Athanasius Press

• If we wish to keep peace with our neighbours, we should never remind any one of his natural defects.

  Philip Neri

  Faith, Inspiration, Wish

  "The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri".

• We are not saints yet, but we, too, should beware. Uprightness and virtue do have their rewards, in self-respect and in respect from others, and it is easy to find ourselves aiming for the result rather than the cause. Let us aim for joy, rather than respectability. Let us make fools of ourselves from time to time, and thus see ourselves, for a moment, as the all-wise God sees us.

  Philip Neri

  Wise, Self, Joy

• First let a little love find entrance into their hearts, and the rest will follow.

  Philip Neri

  Heart, Saint, Littles

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

  Philip Neri

  Men, Giving, Saint

• The great thing is to become Saints.

  Philip Neri

  Catholic, Saint, Great Things

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.54, St Athanasius Press

• Let us think, if we only got to heaven, what a sweet and easy thing it will be there to be always saying with the angels and the saints, Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus.

  Philip Neri

  Sweet, Angel, Thinking

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.48, St Athanasius Press

• Christian joy is a gift of God flowing from a good conscience.

  Philip Neri

  Christian, Joy, Saint

• He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.

  Philip Neri

  Love, God, Christian

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