If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLAMay God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
More Ignatius of Loyola Quotes
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Laugh and grow strong.
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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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Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life.
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He who is not getting better is getting worse.
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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.
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Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love.
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What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.
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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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Receive, Lord, all my liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will.
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He who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes.
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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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We must put aside all judgment of our own, and keep the mind ever ready and prompt to obey in all things the true Spouse of Christ our Lord, our holy Mother, the hierarchical Church.
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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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Discouragement is not from God.
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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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