Do not put faith in constant happiness, and fear most when all smiles upon you.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLALet your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.
More Ignatius of Loyola Quotes
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Finding God in All Things.
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We ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.
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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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It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
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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 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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What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.
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Discouragement is not from God.
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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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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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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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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.
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Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
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May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
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Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God’s honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.
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