SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one’s life, without being influenced in one’s decision by any inordinate affection.
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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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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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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The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.
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If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.
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Teach us, Good Lord, to give and not count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest; to labor and not to ask for any reward save that of knowing that we do thy will.
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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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Receive, Lord, all my liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will.
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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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May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
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Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon.
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Finding God in All Things.
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Truth always ends by victory; it is not unassailable, but invincible.
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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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It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
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A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it.
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