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Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

Ignatius of Loyola

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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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God Love Myself Preparation Service Simplicity Soul Talk
The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness.
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God Journey Service Sick
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
It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
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Hard Love Obedience Oneself
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
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
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
He who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes.
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Carry Heart Heaven Himself
SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one’s life, without being influenced in one’s decision by any inordinate affection.
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Affection Conquer Decision Exercise Influence Spiritual
The glory of God is humankind fully alive.
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Alive Glory God Human Kind
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
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
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
A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it.
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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
As for joy, as little as one can have of it in this life, experience shows that it is not the idle who possess it, but those who are zealous in the service of God.
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