A person with imprecise ideas can understand little and be of less help to others.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLAAs 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.
More Ignatius of Loyola Quotes
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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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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.
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Do not put faith in constant happiness, and fear most when all smiles upon you.
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Idleness is hells fishhook for catching souls.
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Sin is unwillingness to trust that what God wants for me is only my deepest happiness.
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It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.
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To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.
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It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.
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Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.
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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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God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.
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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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We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.
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He who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes.
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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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