If you seek peace…
If you seek peace and tranquillity, you will certainly not find them so long as you have a cause of disturbance and turmoil within yourself.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
Whatever cross we bear…
Let us go forth eagerly, sure that whatever cross we have to bear will not be without Christ, and that his aid… will always be with us.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
See God’s presence…
It should constantly be our care to see God’s presence in everything, and not only to raise our minds to him when we are at prayer.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
If you suffer much…
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.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
In time of desolation…
In time of desolation one should never make a change, but stand firm and consistent in the resolutions and decisions that guided one the days before the desolation, or to the decision which one observed in the preceding time of consolation. For just as the good spirit guides and rejoices us in consolation, so in desolation it is the evil spirit which guides and counsels.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
God can mould us…
A rough and unshapen log has no idea that it can be made into a statue that will be considered a masterpiece, but the carver sees what can be done with it. So many seem to know scarcely anything of the Christian life and do not understand that God can mould them into saints, until they put themselves into the hands of that almighty Artisan.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
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