Whatever you are doing, that which makes you feel the most alive…that is where God is.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLAThe principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.
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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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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He who is not getting better is getting worse.
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God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.
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Love ought to show itself in deeds more than in words.
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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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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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The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness.
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Idleness is hells fishhook for catching souls.
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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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Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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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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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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Truth always ends by victory; it is not unassailable, but invincible.
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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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