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Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.

Ignatius of Loyola

It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.
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Endurance Grief Myself Sorrow Tears
He who has heard the Word of God can bear his silences.
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God Himself Silence Word
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
God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.
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Generosity God Grace Ourselves Willing
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
God will not be outdone in generosity.
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Generosity God One Liner
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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Creation Faith Gift God Myself Service World
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
A person with imprecise ideas can understand little and be of less help to others.
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Help Ideas Person Understand
Sin is unwillingness to trust that what God wants for me is only my deepest happiness.
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Deep God Happiness Sin Trust Willing
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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Cost Count Generosity Price Teaching
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
The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness.
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God Journey Service Sick
Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
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Acceptance Imperfection Self Love Yourself
The acknowledgment of and gratitude for favors and gifts received is loved and esteemed in Heaven and on earth.
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Earth Gift Gratitude Heaven
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

Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.

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Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.

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