Top 76 Ignatius Loyola Quotes
#1. Beware of condemning any man's action. Consider your neighbor's intention, which is often honest and innocent, even though his act seems bad in outward appearance. - St. Ignatius Loyola
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#2. Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of Jesus, was consciously modeled along military lines by its founder, Ignatius Loyola.
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#4. We must speak to God as a friend speaks to his friend, servant to his master; now asking some favor, now acknowledging our faults, and communicating to Him all that concerns us, our thoughts, our fears, our projects, our desires, and in all things seeking His counsel.
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#5. God gives each one of us sufficient grace ever to know His holy will, and to do it fully.
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#6. After all, Ignatius of Loyola, a soldier who had killed and whored and made a thorough mess of his soul, said you could judge prayer worthwhile simply if you could act more decently, think more clearly afterward. As D.W. once told him, "Son, sometimes it's enough just to act less like a shithead.
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#7. The picture. A great plain, comprising the entire Jerusalem district, where is the supreme Commander-in-Chief of the forces of good, Christ our Lord: another plain near Babylon, where Lucifer is, at the head of the enemy.
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#10. The acknowledgment of and gratitude for favors and gifts received is loved and esteemed in Heaven and on earth.
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#11. All the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come to know him better, love him more surely, and serve him more faithfully.
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#13. 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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#15. 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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#16. O my God, teach me to be generous,
teach me to serve you as I should,
to give without counting the cost,
to fight without fear of being wounded,
to work without seeking rest,
to labour without expecting any reward,
but the knowledge that I am doing your most holy will.
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#17. Receive, Lord, all my liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will.
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#19. Next it dawned on him that the former ideas were of the world, the latter God-sent; finally, worldly thoughts began to lose their hold, while heavenly ones grew clearer and dearer.
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#20. 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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#21. Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, all I have and call my own. You have given all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and your grace, that is enough for me.
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#23. What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.
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#24. 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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#25. If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.
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#26. There is no doubt that God will never be wanting to us, provided that He finds in us that humility which makes us worthy of His gifts, the desire of possessing them, and the promptitude to co-operate industriously with the graces He gives us.
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#28. 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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#29. Calisto, a companion of Ignatius, and who on recovering from a severe illness had heard of the imprisonment of Ignatius, hastened from Segnovia, where he was staying, and came to Alcala, that he, too, might be cast into prison.
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#30. In the case of those who are making progress from good to better, the good angel touches the soul gently, lightly, sweetly, as a drop of water enters a sponge, while the evil spirit touches it sharply, with noise and disturbance, like a drop of water falling on a rock.
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#31. Act as if everything depended on you; trust as if everything depended on God.
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#33. Truth always ends by victory; it is not unassailable, but invincible.
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#35. 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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#36. SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection.
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#37. He who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes.
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#38. A person with imprecise ideas can understand little and be of less help to others.
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#39. He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.
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#40. It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross.
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#41. All the honey that can be gathered from the flowers of this world has less sweetness than the vinegar and gall of Jesus Christ our Lord.
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#42. Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our lord may wish to work in you. it is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one.
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#43. Up to his twenty-sixth year the heart of Ignatius was enthralled by the vanities of the world. His special delight was in the military life, and he seemed led by a strong and empty desire of gaining for himself a great name.
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#44. A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it.
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#46. 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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#47. 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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#48. To give, and not to count the cost
to fight, and not to heed the wounds,
to toil, and not to seek for rest,
to labor, and not to ask for any reward,
save that of knowing that we do thy will
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#50. if it happens that the soul is attached or inclined to a thing inordinately, that one should move himself, putting forth all his strength, to come to the contrary of what he is wrongly drawn to.
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#51. God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.
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#52. If you attach your heart to certain places and occupations, obedience oftentimes places you in some other place that you may not like; to be always cheerful, be always humble and obedient.
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#53. 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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#54. 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.
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#55. After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan's temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he'll have an incentive to leave you alone.
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#56. One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious.
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#58. 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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#59. Do not put faith in constant happiness, and fear most when all smiles upon you.
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#60. Lord, teach me to be generous;
Teach me to serve you as you deserve;
To give and not to count the cost;
To fight and not to heed the wounds;
To toil, and not to seek for rest;
To labor, and not to ask for reward -
except to know that I am doing your will.
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#61. For they speak of Christ, not that they may preach Christ, but that they may reject Christ; and they speak of the law, not that they may establish the law, but that they may proclaim things contrary to it.
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#62. 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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#63. Whatever you are doing, that which makes you feel the most alive ... that is where God is.
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#65. 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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#66. Sin is unwillingness to trust that what God wants for me is only my deepest happiness.
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#67. You have given it all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and grace. That is enough for me.
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#68. Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous; teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost.
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#70. He learned by experience that one train of thought left him sad, the other joyful. This was his first reasoning on spiritual matters.
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#71. He who is devout to the Virgin Mother will certainly never be lost.
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#72. For it is not knowing much, but realising and relishing things interiorly, that contents and satisfies the soul.
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#73. 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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#74. To withdraw from creatures and repose with Jesus in the Tabernacle is my delight; there I can hide myself and seek rest. There I find a life which I cannot describe, a joy which I cannot make others comprehend, a peace such as is found only under the hospitable roof of our best Friend.
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#76. 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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