It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLASo 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.
More Ignatius of Loyola Quotes
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The glory of God is humankind fully alive.
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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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To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.
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Idleness is hells fishhook for catching souls.
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A person with imprecise ideas can understand little and be of less help to others.
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May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
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May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
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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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What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.
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Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
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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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Laugh and grow strong.
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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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He who is not getting better is getting worse.
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Receive, Lord, all my liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will.
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