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.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLAHe who is not getting better is getting worse.
More Ignatius of Loyola Quotes
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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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A person with imprecise ideas can understand little and be of less help to others.
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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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He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.
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May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.
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Finding God in All Things.
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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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If one fears men much he will never do anything great for God: all that one does for God arouses persecution.
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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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Concerning the harsh treatment of the body for our Lord’s sake, I would say, avoid anything that would cause the shedding even of a drop of blood.
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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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Sin is unwillingness to trust that what God wants for me is only my deepest happiness.
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We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.
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Discouragement is not from God.
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The glory of God is humankind fully alive.
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