Quotes from Ignatius of Loyola
Sin is unwillingness to trust that what God wants for me is only my deepest happiness.
- Ignatius of Loyola
To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.
- Ignatius of Loyola
If one fears men much he will never do anything great for God: all that one does for God arouses persecution.
- Ignatius of Loyola
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.
- Ignatius of Loyola
Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.
- Ignatius of Loyola
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
Laugh and grow strong.
- Ignatius of Loyola
If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.
- Ignatius of Loyola
For it is not knowing much, but realising and relishing things interiorly, that contents and satisfies the soul.
- Ignatius of Loyola
He learned by experience that one train of thought left him sad, the other joyful. This was his first reasoning on spiritual matters.
- Ignatius of Loyola
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.
- Ignatius of Loyola
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.
- Ignatius of Loyola