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extraordinary works done on your own authority — Ven. Louis de Blois.

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Vigilance is rendered necessary and indispensable, not only by the dangers that surround us, but by the delicacy, the extreme difficulty of the work we all have to engage in — the work of our salvation. — Ven. Louis de Granada,

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Among the different means that we have of pleasing God in all that we do, one of the most efficacious is to perform each of our actions as though it were to be the last of our life. — St. Vincent de Paul.

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I have to seek only the glory of God, my own sanctification, and the salvation of my neighbor. I should therefore devote myself to these things, if necessary, at the peril of my life. — St. Alphonsus.

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Idleness is hell's fishhook for catching souls. — St. Ignatius,

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Whoever imagines himself without defect has an excess of pride. God alone is perfect. — St. Antoninus.