Quote

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.

Ignatius of Loyola

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ignatius of Loyola
Look
Giver
Looks
Keeping
Heart
Hearts
Always
Gift
Would
Thoughts
Love
Eyes
Lord
Eye

More quotes by Ignatius of Loyola

Image
Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.
Ignatius of Loyola
Image
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.
Ignatius of Loyola
Image
Truth always ends by victory it is not unassailable, but invincible.
Ignatius of Loyola
Image
The enemy is like a woman, weak in face of opposition, but correspondingly strong when not opposed. In a quarrel with a man, it is natural for a woman to lose heart and run away when he faces up to her on the other hand, if the man begins to be afraid and to give ground, her rage, vindictiveness and fury overflow and know no limit.
Ignatius of Loyola
Image
If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.
Ignatius of Loyola
Image
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.
Ignatius of Loyola
Image
What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.
Ignatius of Loyola
Image
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.
Ignatius of Loyola
Image
Discouragement is not from God.
Ignatius of Loyola
Image
We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
Ignatius of Loyola
Image
We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.
Ignatius of Loyola
Image
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.
Ignatius of Loyola
Image
It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.
Ignatius of Loyola
Image
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.
Ignatius of Loyola
Image
The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
Ignatius of Loyola
Image
Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life.
Ignatius of Loyola
Image
Imagine that leader of all the enemy, in that great plain of Babylon, sitting on a sort of throne of smoking flame, a horrible and terrifying sight. Watch him calling together countless devils, to despatch them into different cities till the whole world is covered, forgetting no province or locality, no class or single individual.
Ignatius of Loyola
Image
To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.
Ignatius of Loyola
Image
But some most worthless persons are in the habit of carrying about the name of Jesus Christ in wicked guile, while yet they practice things unworthy of God, and hold opinions contrary to the doctrine of Christ, to their own destruction, and that of those who give credit to them, whom you must avoid as ye would wild beasts.
Ignatius of Loyola
Image
Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous teach me to serve you as you deserve to give and not to count the cost.
Ignatius of Loyola