"Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our lord may wish to work in you. it is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the L..."
- Ignatius of Loyola
"Lord, teach me to be generous;Teach me to serve you as you deserve;To give and not to 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 ..."
"Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, all I have and call my own. You have given all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with i..."
"If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy."
"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 gi..."
"Calisto, a companion of Ignatius, and who on recovering from a severe illness had heard of the imprisonment of Ignatius, hastened from Segnovia, where he was staying, and came to Alcala, that he, too,..."
"What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines."
"Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing and God everything."
- Saint Ignatius of Loyola