Quotes from Ignatius of Loyola

He who is devout to the Virgin Mother will certainly never be lost.

Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.

He who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes.

If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He certainly intends to make you a saint.

Finding God in All Things.

Discouragement is not from God.

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.

He who has heard the Word of God can bear his silences.

Few souls understand what God would effect in them if they should give themselves entirely into his hands and allow his grace to act.

One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious.

God will not be outdone in generosity.

God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.

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.

May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!

We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.

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.

SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection.

Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.

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.

It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.

For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.

It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross.

True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.