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.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLAIt is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross.
More Ignatius of Loyola Quotes
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It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.
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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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Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.
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Idleness is hells fishhook for catching souls.
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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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True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
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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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Love ought to show itself in deeds more than in words.
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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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If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.
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Discouragement is not from God.
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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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One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God’s help, he has been victorious.
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Receive, Lord, all my liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will.
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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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