God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLAIt 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.
More Ignatius of Loyola Quotes
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Do not put faith in constant happiness, and fear most when all smiles upon you.
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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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A person with imprecise ideas can understand little and be of less help to others.
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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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Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.
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To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.
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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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Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
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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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God gives each one of us sufficient grace ever to know His holy will, and to do it fully.
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He who has heard the Word of God can bear his silences.
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If anyone asks you for something that you believe would be injurious to him, refuse, but in such a manner as not to lose his good-will.
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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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It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross.
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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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