One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God’s help, he has been victorious.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLALet us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.
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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We must put aside all judgment of our own, and keep the mind ever ready and prompt to obey in all things the true Spouse of Christ our Lord, our holy Mother, the hierarchical Church.
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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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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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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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If one fears men much he will never do anything great for God: all that one does for God arouses persecution.
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Truth always ends by victory; it is not unassailable, but invincible.
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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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A person with imprecise ideas can understand little and be of less help to others.
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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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Whatever you are doing, that which makes you feel the most alive…that is where God is.
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Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
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May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
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