I beseech you in the grace of Jesus Christ, forget those things that are behind, and as if you had just begun your long journey for the first time, set out eagerly on the way of virtue with unwearied step.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
How great a risk salvation and innocence run amid those storms and tempests that are roused at one moment by the raging whirlwind of goods and wealth, at another by honor and glory, at another by pleasure!
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
When the devil meets with a too delicate conscience, he tries to make it much more delicate, and to reduce it to extreme distress, so that it may be so wretchedly disturbed as at last to fall out of the race for spiritual improvement.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
I would always choose the path of suffering, if only to imitate Our Lord Jesus Christ, if there were no other gain.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
His Majesty (the Lord) rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of trials springs love for God.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Let us consider what the glorious Virgin endured, and what the holy apostles suffered, and we shall find that they who were nearest to Jesus Christ were the most afflicted.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
