To acquire and preserve the ...

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

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

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The man who loves God with a true heart, and prizes him above all things, sometimes sheds floods of tears at prayer, and has in abundance of favours and spiritual feelings coming upon him with such vehemence, that he is forced to cry out, "Lord! let me be quiet!
 Philip Neri
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
The perfection of a Christian consists in mortifying his will for the love of Christ. Where there is no great mortification, there is no great sanctity.
 Philip Neri
Where there is no great mortification there is no great sanctity.
 Philip Neri
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