Sin is unwillingness to trust that what God wants for me is only my deepest happiness.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLASin is unwillingness to trust that what God wants for me is only my deepest happiness.
More Ignatius of Loyola Quotes
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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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One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God’s help, he has been victorious.
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The glory of God is humankind fully alive.
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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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He who is devout to the Virgin Mother will certainly never be lost.
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Love ought to show itself in deeds more than in words.
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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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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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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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What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.
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A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it.
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So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.
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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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Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.
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Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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