Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLASpiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.
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Few souls understand what God would effect in them if they should give themselves entirely into his hands and allow his grace to act.
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We should not have a petty regard for God’s gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
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To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.
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Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.
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What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.
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A person with imprecise ideas can understand little and be of less help to others.
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God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.
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He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.
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The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness.
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All the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come to know him better, love him more surely, and serve him more faithfully.
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Teach us, Good Lord, to give and not count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest; to labor and not to ask for any reward save that of knowing that we do thy will.
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God gives each one of us sufficient grace ever to know His holy will, and to do it fully.
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One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God’s help, he has been victorious.
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Laugh and grow strong.
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