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.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLAWe should not have a petty regard for God’s gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
More Ignatius of Loyola Quotes
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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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God will not be outdone in generosity.
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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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He who is devout to the Virgin Mother will certainly never be lost.
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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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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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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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Idleness is hells fishhook for catching souls.
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He who is not getting better is getting worse.
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It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross.
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The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness.
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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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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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Love ought to show itself in deeds more than in words.
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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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