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• May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.

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  Perfect, Grace, Eternal Love

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• The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness

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  Servant Of God, Half, Illness

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• Just as the commander of an army pitches his camp, studies the strength and defenses of a fortress, and then attacks it on its weakest side, in like manner, the enemy of our human nature studies from all sides our theological, cardinal, and moral virtues. Wherever he finds us weakest and most in need regarding our eternal salvation, he attacks and tries to take us by storm.

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  Army, Enemy, Trying

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• To withdraw from creatures and repose with Jesus in the Tabernacle is my delight; there I can hide myself and seek rest. There I find a life which I cannot describe, a joy which I cannot make others comprehend, a peace such as is found only under the hospitable roof of our best Friend.

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  Jesus, Joy, Delight

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• A person with imprecise ideas can understand little and be of less help to others.

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  Ideas, Littles, Helping

  Ignatius of Loyola, Joseph Munitiz (1996). “Personal Writings”, p.249, Penguin UK

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• 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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  Joy, Zealous, Littles

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• God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.

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  Generosity, Grace, Showers

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• If God causes you to suffer much it is a sign that He has great designs for you and that He certainly intends to make you a saint. And if you wish to become a great saint, entreat Him yourself to give you much opportunity for suffering; for there is no wood better to kindle the fire of holy love than the wood of the cross, which Christ used for His own great sacrifice of boundless charity.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Sacrifice

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• The enemy is like a woman, weak in face of opposition, but correspondingly strong when not opposed. In a quarrel with a man, it is natural for a woman to lose heart and run away when he faces up to her; on the other hand, if the man begins to be afraid and to give ground, her rage, vindictiveness and fury overflow and know no limit.

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  Running, Strong, Heart

  "Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola" by Ignatius of Loyola, (No. 325), 1548.

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• 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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  Hope And Faith, Lord, Eternal Life

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• To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.

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  Effort, Rewards, Sin

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• True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.

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  True Love, Catholic, Honor

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• One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious.

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  War, Passion, Retreat

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• 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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  Mean, Men, Giving

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

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  Fire, Woods, Finest

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• Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.

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  Catholic, Modesty, Purity

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• 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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  Spiritual, Exercise, Order

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• 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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  Prayer, Mean, Exercise

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• In the case of those who are making progress from good to better, the good angel touches the soul gently, lightly, sweetly, as a drop of water enters a sponge, while the evil spirit touches it sharply, with noise and disturbance, like a drop of water falling on a rock.

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  Fall, Angel, Rocks

  Saint Ignatius (of Loyola) (1908). “The Text of the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius”

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• 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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  Humility, May, Judgment

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• May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!

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  May, Helping, Lord

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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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  Heart, Humble, Cheerful

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• 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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  Mother, Mind, Church

  Saint Ignatius (of Loyola) (1951). “The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius: A New Translation Based on Studies in the Language of the Autograph”

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• 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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  Pain, Suffering, Doe

  Saint Ignatius of Loyola (2012). “The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• All the honey that can be gathered from the flowers of this world has less sweetness than the vinegar and gall of Jesus Christ our Lord.

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  Jesus, Flower, World

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