It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLAFew souls understand what God would effect in them if they should give themselves entirely into his hands and allow his grace to act.
More Ignatius of Loyola Quotes
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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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The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness.
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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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What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.
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Finding God in All Things.
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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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For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God’s help, he has been victorious.
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The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
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He who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes.
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We ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.
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Discouragement is not from God.
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The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.
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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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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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