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Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.

Ignatius of Loyola

He who has heard the Word of God can bear his silences.
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God Himself Silence Word
Do not put faith in constant happiness, and fear most when all smiles upon you.
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Faith Fear Happiness Smile Yourself
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
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
Whatever you are doing, that which makes you feel the most alive…that is where God is.
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Alive Feeling God 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
Concerning the harsh treatment of the body for our Lord’s sake, I would say, avoid anything that would cause the shedding even of a drop of blood.
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Blood Body God Myself Treat
God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.
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Generosity God Grace Ourselves Willing
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
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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Authority Believe Black Hold Myself Principle See
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.
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Goodness Myself Purpose Service Understand Word
If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He certainly intends to make you a saint.
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God Himself Saint Suffering
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
May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.
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Deserve Discipline God Judgement Ourselves True
Laugh and grow strong.
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Growth Laughter One Liner
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

Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.

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