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.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLAYou 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.
More Ignatius of Loyola Quotes
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If, one day, I should offend God in any way, or grow remiss, though ever so little, in that which concerns His holy service and glory, I solemnly implore Him, rather let me die.
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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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He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.
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Receive, Lord, all my liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will.
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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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Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon.
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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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Sin is unwillingness to trust that what God wants for me is only my deepest happiness.
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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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God will not be outdone in generosity.
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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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May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
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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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The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.
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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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