SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one’s life, without being influenced in one’s decision by any inordinate affection.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLAAs 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.
More Ignatius of Loyola Quotes
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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who disbelieve, no amount of proof is sufficient.
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Discouragement is not from God.
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A person with imprecise ideas can understand little and be of less help to others.
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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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May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
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He who is devout to the Virgin Mother will certainly never be lost.
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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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God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.
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If, one day, I should offend God in any way, or grow remiss, though ever so little, in that which concerns His holy service and glory, I solemnly implore Him, rather let me die.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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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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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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The glory of God is humankind fully alive.
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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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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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