A person with imprecise ideas can understand little and be of less help to others.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLAConsidering 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.
More Ignatius of Loyola Quotes
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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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Receive, Lord, all my liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will.
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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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Concerning the harsh treatment of the body for our Lord’s sake, I would say, avoid anything that would cause the shedding even of a drop of blood.
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He who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes.
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He who has heard the Word of God can bear his silences.
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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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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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He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.
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Truth always ends by victory; it is not unassailable, but invincible.
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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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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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Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
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Do not put faith in constant happiness, and fear most when all smiles upon you.
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Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous; teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost.
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