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.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
A fault that might easily be overcome at its first appearance becomes unconquerable through passing of time and habitual giving way.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
If you want to know what God requires of you, you must first of all put aside all affection and preference for one thing rather than another.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
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.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
The man of prayer must not be cast down in aridity, nor elated when he receives consolation. In dryness let him remember the graces he has enjoyed; and when he feels sensible devotion, let him consider it an alms given him gratis by God.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
