As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest of the opposite virtue, liberality.
Philip NeriThe stench of impurity before God and the angels is so great, that no stench in the world can equal it.
Philip NeriTo preserve our cheerfulness amid sicknesses and troubles, is a sign of a right and good spirit.
Philip NeriHe who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.
Philip NeriIn 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