“Act as if everything depended on you; trust as if everything depended on God.””
Quotes by Saint Ignatius of Loyola
“If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He has great designs for you, and that He certainly intends to make you a saint. And if you wish to become a great saint, entreat Him yourself to give you much opportunity for suffering; for there is no wood better to kindle the fire of holy love than the wood of the cross, which Christ used for His own great sacrifice of boundless charity.””
“It is dangerous to make everybody go forward by the same road: and worse to measure others by oneself.””
“Ite, inflammate omnia.””
“SPIRITUAL EXERCISES to conquer oneself and regulate one’s life without determining oneself through4 any tendency that is disordered 4 Without determining oneself through is in the Saint’s hand””
The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius
“We should not fix our desires on health or sickness, wealth or poverty, success or failure, a long life or a short one. For everything has the potential of calling forth in us a deeper response to our life in God. Our only desire and our one choice should be this: I want and I choose what better leads to God's deepening his life in me.””
