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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

We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.
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Appearance Believe Black Decision White
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
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
What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.
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Believe Black Definition Myself
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
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
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
To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.
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Greatness Himself Man Victory Win
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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Body God Order Ourselves Prayer Remember Yourself
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
God will not be outdone in generosity.
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Generosity God One Liner
Discouragement is not from God.
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Encouragement God One Liner
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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Cost Count Generosity Price Teaching
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
God gives each one of us sufficient grace ever to know His holy will, and to do it fully.
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God Grace Holy Oneself
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

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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