Philip Neri 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.

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

The cross is the gift God gives to his friends.

Philip Neri

Giving, Crosses

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

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

Philip Neri

Men, Giving, Saint

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

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

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