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So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.

Ignatius of Loyola

Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous; teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost.
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Cost Count Generosity Service Teaching Yourself
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
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 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
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
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
He who is not getting better is getting worse.
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Better Inspirational Perspective Worst
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
Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love.
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Blessing Creation God Life Love Sincerity 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
If anyone asks you for something that you believe would be injurious to him, refuse, but in such a manner as not to lose his good-will.
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Believe Goodness Lose Willing Yourself
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
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
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
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

So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.

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So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.

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