black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He certainly intends to make you a saint.

Ignatius of Loyola

Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA

Modesty Peace Sufficient Yourself
He who is devout to the Virgin Mother will certainly never be lost.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA

Devotion God Himself Lost Mom
True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA

Deserve Love Myself Suffering True
The acknowledgment of and gratitude for favors and gifts received is loved and esteemed in Heaven and on earth.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA

Earth Gift Gratitude Heaven
God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA

Generosity God Grace Ourselves Willing
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.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA

Death God Growth Myself Offend Service
Sin is unwillingness to trust that what God wants for me is only my deepest happiness.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA

Deep God Happiness Sin Trust Willing
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA

Cost Count Generosity Price Teaching
Teach us, Good Lord, to give and not count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest; to labor and not to ask for any reward save that of knowing that we do thy will.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA

Fight Reward Save Seek Teaching Willing Wound
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.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA

Believe Goodness Lose Willing Yourself
The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA

Bone Pain Safety Sick Suffering
The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA

Attention Creation Distraction Focus God Ourselves
Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA

Beat Move Root Stand
Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous; teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA

Cost Count Generosity Service Teaching Yourself
Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA

Reason Sick Spiritual
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 LOYOLA

Eyes God Heart Love Ourselves Thinking

If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He certainly intends to make you a saint.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He certainly intends to make you a saint.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ignatius of Loyola Quotes