Ignatius of Loyola Quotes

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• Pray as if God will take care of all; act as if all is up to you.

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  Up To You, Care, Praying

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• Whatever you are doing, that which makes you feel the most alive...that is where God is.

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  Alive, Feels

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• 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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  Mean, World, Gift From God

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

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  Heart, Heaven, Bears

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• Love ought to show itself in deeds more than in words.

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  Deeds, Shows, Ought

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• O my God, teach me to be generous
  to serve you as you deserve to be served
  to give without counting the cost
  to fight without fear of being wounded
  to work without seeking rest
  and to spend myself without expecting any reward
  but the knowledge that I am doing your holy will.
  Amen

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  Fighting, Giving, Cost

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• For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who disbelieve, no amount of proof is sufficient.

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  Believe, Proof, Sufficient

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• To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.

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  Men, Greatest Victory, Gains

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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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  Suffering, Saint, Causes

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• He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

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  Reform, World, Labor

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• Take, O Lord, and receive my entire liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will. All that I am and all that I possess You have given me. I surrender it all to You to be disposed of according to Your will. Give me only Your love and Your grace; with these I will be rich enough, and will desire nothing more.

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  Memories, Giving, Grace

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• 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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  Prayer, Desire, Asking

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

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  Catholic, Saint, Hard

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• Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

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  Occupy Yourself, Imperfection, Contemplating

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• Laugh and grow strong.

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  Strong, Laughing, Grows

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• Finding God in All Things.

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  Awareness, Finding God, Findings

  Saint Ignatius (of Loyola) (1991). “Ignatius of Loyola: The Spiritual Exercises and Selected Works”, p.459, Paulist Press

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• He who is not getting better is getting worse.

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  Get Better

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• Teach us, Good Lord, to give and not 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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  Fighting, Knowing, Giving

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• God freely created us so that we might know, love, and serve him in this life and be happy with him forever. God's purpose in creating us is to draw forth from us a response of love and service here on earth, so that we may attain our goal of everlasting happiness with him in heaven.

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  Creating, Goal, Forever

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• Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

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  Generosity, Giving, Catholic

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• Truth always ends by victory; it is not unassailable, but invincible.

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  Victory, Ends, Invincible

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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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  Heartfelt, Doing Nothing, Action

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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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  Jesus, Done, Christ

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• The glory of God is humankind fully alive.

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  Alive, Glory, Glory Of God

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• 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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  Prayer, Meditation, Decision

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