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Ignatius of Loyola

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
He who is not getting better is getting worse.
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Better Inspirational Perspective Worst
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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Alone God Heart Success Work
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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Angel Courage Failure God Goodness Lose Man Remember
You have given it all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and grace. That is enough for me.
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Enough God Grace Love Myself Return
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
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
Discouragement is not from God.
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Encouragement God One Liner
The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness.
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God Journey Service Sick
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
If you attach your heart to certain places and occupations, obedience oftentimes places you in some other place that you may not like; to be always cheerful, be always humble and obedient.
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Attachment Heart Humble Obedience Occupation Place Yourself
Pray as if God will take care of all; act as if all is up to you.
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Act Care God Prayer Yourself
Truth always ends by victory; it is not unassailable, but invincible.
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Death End Truth Victory
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
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
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
He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.
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Beginning Himself Lose Work World
The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.
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Attention Creation Distraction Focus God Ourselves
He who is devout to the Virgin Mother will certainly never be lost.
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Devotion God Himself Lost Mom
Finding God in All Things.
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God One Liner
God will not be outdone in generosity.
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Generosity God One Liner
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
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
Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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Reason Sick Spiritual
Do not put faith in constant happiness, and fear most when all smiles upon you.
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Faith Fear Happiness Smile Yourself
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
To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.
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Greatness Himself Man Victory Win

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