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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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• ‟ Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.

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• ‟ It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.

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• ‟ Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.

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• ‟ If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and to be a good example of sound teaching to your sons, servants, and relatives.

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• ‟ What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do.

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• ‟ 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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• ‟ When Ignatius understood that God did not wish him to remain at Jerusalem, he began to consider what he should do. The plan he approved and adopted was to enter upon a course of study in order to be better fitted to save souls.

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• ‟ 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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• ‟ 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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• ‟ Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.

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

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• ‟ Experience proves that in this life peace and satisfaction are had, not by the listless but by those who are fervent in God's service. And rightly so. For in their effort to overcome themselves and to rid themselves of self-love, they rid themselves of the roots of all passion and unrest.

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• ‟ Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.

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• ‟ We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.

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• ‟ I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of God our Lord; for the man who loves anything for itself and not for the sake of God, does not love God with his whole heart.

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• ‟ We esteem, honor, and love the apostles more than the other saints, because they served God more faithfully and because they loved Him more perfectly.

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• ‟ Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end.

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