Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLAIt is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
More Ignatius of Loyola Quotes
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A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it.
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He who has heard the Word of God can bear his silences.
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Receive, Lord, all my liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will.
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Discouragement is not from God.
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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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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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Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.
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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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Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon.
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Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
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The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness.
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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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True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
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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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Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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