One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God’s help, he has been victorious.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLAPray as if God will take care of all; act as if all is up to you.
More Ignatius of Loyola Quotes
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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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Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.
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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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He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.
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Finding God in All Things.
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It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
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The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness.
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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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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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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.
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A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it.
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We should not have a petty regard for God’s gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
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SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one’s life, without being influenced in one’s decision by any inordinate affection.
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Receive, Lord, all my liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will.
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He who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes.
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