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.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLAGod will not be outdone in generosity.
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God will not be outdone in generosity.
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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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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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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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A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it.
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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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He who is not getting better is getting worse.
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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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He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.
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The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.
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Do not put faith in constant happiness, and fear most when all smiles upon you.
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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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Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
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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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