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.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLAIdleness is hells fishhook for catching souls.
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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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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
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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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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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We ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.
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Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.
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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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Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.
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Idleness is hells fishhook for catching souls.
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Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
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May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
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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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Discouragement is not from God.
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The acknowledgment of and gratitude for favors and gifts received is loved and esteemed in Heaven and on earth.
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