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.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLAA person with imprecise ideas can understand little and be of less help to others.
More Ignatius of Loyola Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
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Sin is unwillingness to trust that what God wants for me is only my deepest happiness.
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He who is not getting better is getting worse.
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God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts.
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The acknowledgment of and gratitude for favors and gifts received is loved and esteemed in Heaven and on earth.
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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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Whatever you are doing, that which makes you feel the most alive…that is where God is.
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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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He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.
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