Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLAWe should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.
More Ignatius of Loyola Quotes
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Love ought to show itself in deeds more than in words.
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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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If anyone asks you for something that you believe would be injurious to him, refuse, but in such a manner as not to lose his good-will.
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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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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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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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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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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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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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He who is devout to the Virgin Mother will certainly never be lost.
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To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.
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The glory of God is humankind fully alive.
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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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One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God’s help, he has been victorious.
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