True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLAMay the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
More Ignatius of Loyola Quotes
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We should not have a petty regard for God’s gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
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Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
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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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Discouragement is not from God.
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It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross.
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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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He who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes.
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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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Do not put faith in constant happiness, and fear most when all smiles upon you.
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As for joy, as little as one can have of it in this life, experience shows that it is not the idle who possess it, but those who are zealous in the service of God.
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He who has heard the Word of God can bear his silences.
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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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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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They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can gain in this life.
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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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