St. Philip Neri said.....

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"It is God’s custom to interweave human life with a trouble and a consolation, at least, of an interior sort, alternately."

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"Young men should be very careful to avoid idleness."

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"When fathers have given their sons a good education, and put everything clearly and distinctly in train for them, the sons who succeed them, and continue to follow the road marked out for them, will have the advantage of seeing their family persevere in holy ways, and in the fear of God."

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"In order to preserve their purity, young men should frequent the Sacraments, and especially confession."

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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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"To be without pity for other men’s falls, is an evident sign that we shall fall ourselves shortly."

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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."