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A person with imprecise ideas can understand little and be of less help to others.

Ignatius of Loyola

The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness.
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God Journey Service Sick
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
The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
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Bone Pain Safety Sick Suffering
Love ought to show itself in deeds more than in words.
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Action Love Word Work
May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
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God Harm Help Himself Myself
If, one day, I should offend God in any way, or grow remiss, though ever so little, in that which concerns His holy service and glory, I solemnly implore Him, rather let me die.
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Death God Growth Myself Offend Service
They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can gain in this life.
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Insult Life Load Man Treasure
A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it.
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Afraid Experience Poverty Religious
To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.
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Greatness Himself Man Victory Win
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
What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.
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Believe Black Definition Myself
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.
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End Faith Father Principle Religious
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
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
He who has heard the Word of God can bear his silences.
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God Himself Silence Word
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

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