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Sin is unwillingness to trust that what God wants for me is only my deepest happiness.

Ignatius of Loyola

Do not put faith in constant happiness, and fear most when all smiles upon you.
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Faith Fear Happiness Smile Yourself
Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon.
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Beat Move Root Stand
May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
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God Harm Help Himself Myself
Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life.
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Generosity God Heaven Life Man Need Ourselves
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
If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He certainly intends to make you a saint.
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God Himself Saint Suffering
A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it.
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Afraid Experience Poverty Religious
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
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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Fight Reward Save Seek Teaching Willing Wound
He who is devout to the Virgin Mother will certainly never be lost.
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Devotion God Himself Lost Mom
If one fears men much he will never do anything great for God: all that one does for God arouses persecution.
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Fear God Greatness Man Oneself
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
Idleness is hells fishhook for catching souls.
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Catch Hell Soul Weird
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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Act Affect Grace Hands Himself Soul Understand
Pray as if God will take care of all; act as if all is up to you.
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Act Care God Prayer Yourself
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

Sin is unwillingness to trust that what God wants for me is only my deepest happiness.

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