Change of life…
Change of climate does not involve change of life. The imperfect man will be much the same wherever he is, until he has forsaken himself.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
Love the abandoned…
Love even the most abandoned: love whatever faith in Christ remains in them: if they have lost this, love their virtues; if these have gone, love the holy likeness they bear, love the blood of Christ through which you trust they are redeemed.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
Riches are only lent…
Who could count all those who have had wealth, power, honor? But their glory, their riches were only lent to them, and they wore themselves out in preserving and increasing that which they were forced to abandon one day.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
Love of our…
One of the things which we must be very firm about, if we are to please our Lord, is to cast far from us everything that could remove us from the love of our brethren. We should make every effort to love them with a tender charity, for Supreme Truth has said: “This is how all will know you are my disciples, etc.” (John 13:35)
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
By spiritual exercises…
By the term ‘Spiritual Exercises’ is meant every method of examination of conscience, of meditation, of contemplation, of vocal and mental prayer, and of other spiritual activities… For just as taking a walk, journeying on foot, and running are bodily exercises, so we call Spiritual Exercises every way of preparing and disposing the soul to rid itself of all inordinate attachments, and, after their removal, of seeking and finding the will of God in the disposition of our life for the salvation of our soul.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
In proper control…
I would not have the emotions, particularly anger, to be entirely extinguished and dead in those who are in authority, but kept in proper control.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
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