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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The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.
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If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He certainly intends to make you a saint.
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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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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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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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Sin is unwillingness to trust that what God wants for me is only my deepest happiness.
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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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The glory of God is humankind fully alive.
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He who is not getting better is getting worse.
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The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness.
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Discouragement is not from God.
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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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Finding God in All Things.
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For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.
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