Ignatius Of Loyola Quotes
Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous; teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost.
God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.
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.
It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.
God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts.
We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.
Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
Concerning the harsh treatment of the body for our Lord's sake, I would say, avoid anything that would cause the shedding even of a drop of blood.
We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.
It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.
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.
Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing and God everything.
It is dangerous to make everybody go forward by the same road: and worse to measure others by oneself.
