No idle word should be uttered. I understand a word to be idle when it serves no good purpose, either for myself or for another, and was not intended to do so.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLATo have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.
More Ignatius of Loyola Quotes
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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 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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Discouragement is not from God.
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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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They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can gain in this life.
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Few souls understand what God would effect in them if they should give themselves entirely into his hands and allow his grace to act.
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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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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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He who is devout to the Virgin Mother will certainly never be lost.
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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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What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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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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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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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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