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It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross.

Ignatius of Loyola

It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.
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Endurance Grief Myself Sorrow Tears
It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
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Hard Love Obedience Oneself
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
For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Devotion Difficult God Love Ourselves
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
We must put aside all judgment of our own, and keep the mind ever ready and prompt to obey in all things the true Spouse of Christ our Lord, our holy Mother, the hierarchical Church.
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God Judgement Mindset Mom Obedience Ourselves
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
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
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
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
It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.
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Charm Oneself Religious Talk
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
He who has heard the Word of God can bear his silences.
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God Himself Silence Word
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 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 glory of God is humankind fully alive.
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Alive Glory God Human Kind

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