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.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLAGod 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.
More Ignatius of Loyola Quotes
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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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Receive, Lord, all my liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will.
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To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.
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If one fears men much he will never do anything great for God: all that one does for God arouses persecution.
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We ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.
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Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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The acknowledgment of and gratitude for favors and gifts received is loved and esteemed in Heaven and on earth.
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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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It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross.
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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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Whatever you are doing, that which makes you feel the most alive…that is where God is.
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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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Discouragement is not from God.
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So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.
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