Everything will come to light…
Everything you say and do will come to light: remember that what you say in secret will be shouted from the housetops.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
No idle word…
No idle word should be uttered. I understand a word to be idle when it serves no good purpose, either for myself or for another, and was not intended to do so.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
Success and dryness…
Success and dryness are equally dangerous to those who are given to prayer: the one tends to make the mind swell with pride, the other provokes it to boredom.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
Decide which is better…
I leave it to your good sense to decide which is better: to say now to all that is earthly, ‘What does it profit a man?’ Or to cry in vain later on, ‘What did it profit?’
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
Our Father said from our heart…
Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Who the Father is…
When I repeat the “Our Father,” my love should make me want to understand Who this Father of ours is and Who the Master is that taught us this prayer.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
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