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Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.

Ignatius of Loyola

Do not put faith in constant happiness, and fear most when all smiles upon you.
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Faith Fear Happiness Smile Yourself
Whatever you are doing, that which makes you feel the most alive…that is where God is.
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Alive Feeling God Yourself
Few souls understand what God would effect in them if they should give themselves entirely into his hands and allow his grace to act.
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Act Affect Grace Hands Himself Soul Understand
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
Truth always ends by victory; it is not unassailable, but invincible.
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Death End Truth Victory
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
Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.
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Death Faith Forever God Hope Live Ourselves
The glory of God is humankind fully alive.
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Alive Glory God Human Kind
True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
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Deserve Love Myself Suffering True
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
Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous; teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost.
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Cost Count Generosity Service Teaching Yourself
What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.
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Believe Black Definition Myself
Discouragement is not from God.
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Encouragement God One Liner
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
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 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
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
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
He who is devout to the Virgin Mother will certainly never be lost.
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Devotion God Himself Lost Mom
Finding God in All Things.
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God One Liner
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
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
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
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
Love ought to show itself in deeds more than in words.
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Action Love Word Work
To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.
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Effort Enough Life Prevent Reward Sin Time
Concerning the harsh treatment of the body for our Lord’s sake, I would say, avoid anything that would cause the shedding even of a drop of blood.
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Blood Body God Myself Treat

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