We should not have a petty regard for God’s gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLAHe who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes.
More Ignatius of Loyola Quotes
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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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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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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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The glory of God is humankind fully alive.
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He who has heard the Word of God can bear his silences.
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For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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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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May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
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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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God will not be outdone in generosity.
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What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.
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It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
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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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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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No idle word should be uttered. I understand a word to be idle when it serves no good purpose, either for myself or for another, and was not intended to do so.
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