Laugh and grow strong.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLARemember 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.
More Ignatius of Loyola Quotes
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Sin is unwillingness to trust that what God wants for me is only my deepest happiness.
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Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
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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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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.
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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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Finding God in All Things.
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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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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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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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No idle word should be uttered. I understand a word to be idle when it serves no good purpose, either for myself or for another, and was not intended to do so.
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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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Receive, Lord, all my liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will.
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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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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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If you attach your heart to certain places and occupations, obedience oftentimes places you in some other place that you may not like; to be always cheerful, be always humble and obedient.
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