The glory of God is humankind fully alive.
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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Do not put faith in constant happiness, and fear most when all smiles upon you.
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All the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come to know him better, love him more surely, and serve him more faithfully.
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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 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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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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Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life.
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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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Laugh and grow strong.
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To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.
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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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Truth always ends by victory; it is not unassailable, but invincible.
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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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Sin is unwillingness to trust that what God wants for me is only my deepest happiness.
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If you attach your heart to certain places and occupations, obedience oftentimes places you in some other place that you may not like; to be always cheerful, be always humble and obedient.
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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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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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If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.
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God gives each one of us sufficient grace ever to know His holy will, and to do it fully.
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He who is devout to the Virgin Mother will certainly never be lost.
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Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
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Finding God in All Things.
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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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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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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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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.
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Idleness is hells fishhook for catching souls.
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