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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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A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it.
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Afraid Experience Poverty Religious
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
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
Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon.
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Beat Move Root Stand
If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.
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Care Guilty Hungry Oppression Ourselves Poor
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
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
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
May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
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God Harm Help Himself Myself
It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
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Hard Love Obedience Oneself
He who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes.
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Carry Heart Heaven Himself
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
Finding God in All Things.
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God One Liner
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
The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness.
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God Journey Service Sick
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

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