Ignatius of Loyola
Pray as if God will take care of all; act as if all is up to you.Collection: Up To You
Love ought to show itself in deeds more than in words.Collection: Deeds
Whatever you are doing, that which makes you feel the most alive...that is where God is.Collection: Alive
All the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come to know him better, love him more surely, and serve him more faithfully.Collection: Mean
He who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes.Collection: Heart
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who disbelieve, no amount of proof is sufficient.Collection: Believe
To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.Collection: Men
He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.Collection: Reform
If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He certainly intends to make you a saint.Collection: Suffering
Take, O Lord, and receive my entire liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will. All that I am and all that I possess You have given me. I surrender it all to You to be disposed of according to Your will. Give me only Your love and Your grace; with these I will be rich enough, and will desire nothing more.Collection: Memories
We must speak to God as a friend speaks to his friend, servant to his master; now asking some favor, now acknowledging our faults, and communicating to Him all that concerns us, our thoughts, our fears, our projects, our desires, and in all things seeking His counsel.Collection: Prayer
He who is not getting better is getting worse.Collection: Get Better
Laugh and grow strong.Collection: Strong
Finding God in All Things.Collection: Awareness
God gives each one of us sufficient grace ever to know His holy will, and to do it fully.Collection: Giving
Teach us, Good Lord, to give and not count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest; to labor and not to ask for any reward save that of knowing that we do thy will.Collection: Fighting
After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan's temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he'll have an incentive to leave you alone.Collection: Prayer
Truth always ends by victory; it is not unassailable, but invincible.Collection: Victory
Idleness is hells fishhook for catching souls.Collection: Soul
Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.Collection: Heartfelt
God will not be outdone in generosity.Collection: Generosity
God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.Collection: Generosity
To withdraw from creatures and repose with Jesus in the Tabernacle is my delight; there I can hide myself and seek rest. There I find a life which I cannot describe, a joy which I cannot make others comprehend, a peace such as is found only under the hospitable roof of our best Friend.Collection: Jesus
The enemy is like a woman, weak in face of opposition, but correspondingly strong when not opposed. In a quarrel with a man, it is natural for a woman to lose heart and run away when he faces up to her; on the other hand, if the man begins to be afraid and to give ground, her rage, vindictiveness and fury overflow and know no limit.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Faith
Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous; teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost.Collection: Giving
Receive, Lord, all my liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will.Collection: Memories
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.Collection: Mean
The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illnessCollection: Servant Of God
A person with imprecise ideas can understand little and be of less help to others.Collection: Ideas
One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious.Collection: War
Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.Collection: Catholic
It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross.Collection: Fire
SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection.Collection: Spiritual
In the case of those who are making progress from good to better, the good angel touches the soul gently, lightly, sweetly, as a drop of water enters a sponge, while the evil spirit touches it sharply, with noise and disturbance, like a drop of water falling on a rock.Collection: Fall
If you attach your heart to certain places and occupations, obedience oftentimes places you in some other place that you may not like; to be always cheerful, be always humble and obedient.Collection: Heart
Soul of Christ, sanctify me. Body of Christ, save me. Blood of Christ, inebriate me. Water from the side of Christ, wash me. Passion of Christ, strengthen me. O good Jesus, hear me. Within Thy wounds hide me. Permit me not to be separated from Thee. From the wicked foe defend me. At the hour of my death call me. And bid me come to Thee. That with Thy saints I may praise Thee For ever and ever. Amen.Collection: Jesus
If God gives you an abundant harvest of trials, it is a sign of great holiness which He desires you to attain. Do you want to become a great saint? Ask God to send you many sufferings. The flame of Divine Love never rises higher than when fed with the wood of the Cross, which the infinite charity of the Savior used to finish His sacrifice. All the pleasures of the world are nothing compared with the sweetness found in the gall and vinegar offered to Jesus Christ. That is, hard and painful things endured for Jesus Christ and with Jesus Christ.Collection: Jesus
If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.Collection: Caring
The glory of God is humankind fully alive.Collection: Alive
Discouragement is not from God.Collection: Faith
God freely created us so that we might know, love, and serve him in this life and be happy with him forever. God's purpose in creating us is to draw forth from us a response of love and service here on earth, so that we may attain our goal of everlasting happiness with him in heaven.Collection: Creating
You have given it all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and grace. That is enough for me.Collection: Faith
Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon.Collection: Anvils
If one fears men much he will never do anything great for God: all that one does for God arouses persecution.Collection: Men
Sin is unwillingness to trust that what God wants for me is only my deepest happiness.Collection: Want
He who has heard the Word of God can bear his silences.Collection: Silence
Pardon me, O perfections of my God, for having preferred imperfect and evil inclinations to Thee! Pardon me, O justice of my God, for having outraged Thee by my sins. Pardon me, O holiness of my God, for having so long stained Thy sight's purity by my sins. Pardon me, O mercy of my God, for having despised so long Thy mercy's voice. In deep sorrow and contrition, I cast myself at Thy feet: Have mercy on me.Collection: Forgiveness
He who is devout to the Virgin Mother will certainly never be lost.Collection: Mother