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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

A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it.
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Afraid Experience Poverty Religious
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
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
He who has heard the Word of God can bear his silences.
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God Himself Silence Word
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
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 servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness.
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God Journey Service Sick
God will not be outdone in generosity.
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Generosity God One Liner
If one fears men much he will never do anything great for God: all that one does for God arouses persecution.
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Fear God Greatness Man Oneself
Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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Reason Sick Spiritual
It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
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Hard Love Obedience Oneself
He who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes.
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Carry Heart Heaven Himself
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
Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life.
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Generosity God Heaven Life Man Need Ourselves
The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.
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Attention Creation Distraction Focus God Ourselves
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

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