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If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He certainly intends to make you a saint.

Ignatius of Loyola

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
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
We should not have a petty regard for God’s gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
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Gift God Imperfection Regard
What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.
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Believe Black Definition Myself
They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can gain in this life.
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Insult Life Load Man Treasure
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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Experience God Joy Life Possession Service
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
Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon.
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Beat Move Root Stand
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
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 glory of God is humankind fully alive.
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Alive Glory God Human Kind
It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross.
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Divine Feed Fire Inspirational Love Religious Tree
A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it.
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Afraid Experience Poverty Religious
One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God’s help, he has been victorious.
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God Oneself Passion Victory War
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
Idleness is hells fishhook for catching souls.
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Catch Hell Soul Weird

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