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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More Ignatius of Loyola Quotes
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God gives each one of us sufficient grace ever to know His holy will, and to do it fully.
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Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
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You have given it all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and grace. That is enough for me.
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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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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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A person with imprecise ideas can understand little and be of less help to others.
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Do not put faith in constant happiness, and fear most when all smiles upon you.
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Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon.
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Truth always ends by victory; it is not unassailable, but invincible.
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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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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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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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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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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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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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