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We should not have a petty regard for God’s gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.

Ignatius of Loyola

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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Body Disgust Horrible Myself Poison Ugly
True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
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Deserve Love Myself Suffering True
Do not put faith in constant happiness, and fear most when all smiles upon you.
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Faith Fear Happiness Smile Yourself
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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Eyes God Heart Love Ourselves Thinking
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
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
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
May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
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Failure Forever Help Love Ourselves Perfection Protection
A person with imprecise ideas can understand little and be of less help to others.
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Help Ideas Person Understand
Truth always ends by victory; it is not unassailable, but invincible.
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Death End Truth Victory
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
To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.
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Greatness Himself Man Victory Win
He who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes.
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Carry Heart Heaven Himself
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
Idleness is hells fishhook for catching souls.
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Catch Hell Soul Weird

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