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What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.

Ignatius of Loyola

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.
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Alone God Heart Success Work
No idle word should be uttered. I understand a word to be idle when it serves no good purpose, either for myself or for another, and was not intended to do so.
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Goodness Myself Purpose Service Understand Word
Truth always ends by victory; it is not unassailable, but invincible.
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Death End Truth Victory
True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
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Deserve Love Myself Suffering True
One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God’s help, he has been victorious.
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God Oneself Passion Victory War
We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.
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Appearance Believe Black Decision White
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who disbelieve, no amount of proof is sufficient.
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Believe Evidence Necessary Sufficient
We should not have a petty regard for God’s gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
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Gift God Imperfection Regard
It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.
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Charm Oneself Religious Talk
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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Cost Count Generosity Price Teaching
Laugh and grow strong.
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Growth Laughter One Liner
We ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.
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Authority Believe Black Hold Myself Principle See
God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts.
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Eyes God Heart Love Ourselves Thinking
He who has heard the Word of God can bear his silences.
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God Himself Silence Word
Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God’s honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.
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Angel Courage Failure God Goodness Lose Man Remember
So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.
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God Love Myself Preparation Service Simplicity Soul Talk

What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.

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