St. Ignatius of Loyola Quotes
Go forth and set the world on fire.
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible.
Love is shown more in deeds than in words.
It is not the knowing that is difficult, but the doing.
Act as if everything depended on you; trust as if everything depended on God.
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
In all things, give thanks.
Find God in all things.
Do all to the greater glory of God.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings and wishes of those who do speak.
Have great desires and God will grant them.
Do what you can, and God will do what you cannot.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and help them to become what they are capable of being.
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 road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
Our hearts are restless until they rest in You.
Those who wish to go up must first go down, and those who wish to rise must first be willing to fall.
Action is born from contemplation.
Love consists not in feeling great things, but in having great detachment and in suffering for the beloved.
Be who you were created to be, and you will set the world on fire.
Lay aside all earthly gain, and you shall find heavenly treasure.
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.
One person’s belief is another person’s delusion.
Every good Christian ought to be more ready to give a favorable interpretation to another’s statement than to condemn it.
Put yourself completely under the influence of God, and He will lead you to where you need to go.
Don’t wish for anything but what God wants for you.
When tempted, invoke your Angel. He is more eager to help you than you are to be helped. Ignore the devil and do not be afraid of him. He trembles and flees at the sight of your Guardian Angel.
Seek God in all things and you shall find Him.
Do you want to make progress in virtue? Then make progress in that devotion which is most pleasing to God.
A single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.
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.
Trials are nothing else but the forge that purifies the soul of all its imperfections.
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.
For it is not knowing much, but realising and relishing things interiorly, that contents and satisfies the soul.
Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak.
Go forth and set the world on fire.
If you could realize how powerful your prayers are, you would never miss a single opportunity to pray.
Do everything for God’s greater glory, and you will find that there is nothing else that you could desire.
Love should be shown by deeds, not words.
God always supplies grace sufficient for every temptation.
If your prayer is selfish, it is no longer prayer but temptation.
What we really desire is not what we say we desire but what we desire in our hearts.
You were made to be a saint, nothing less.
Find God in all things, and you will find joy in all things.
The glory of God is a human being fully alive.
It is better to be the child of God than the king of the whole world.
Do not be afraid to give everything to God, for He will never be outdone in generosity.
The moment you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.