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 LOYOLALaugh and grow strong.
More Ignatius of Loyola Quotes
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Receive, Lord, all my liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will.
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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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To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.
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The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.
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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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Discouragement is not from God.
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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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Laugh and grow strong.
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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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He who is not getting better is getting worse.
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True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
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A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it.
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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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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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Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
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