Saint Ignatius Quotes

Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.

The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.

Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.

Keep your prayer simple. Whatever confuses or complicates prayer is probably best forgotten.

When it comes to ourselves, we often have a blind spot. That is, we fail to see ourselves as others see us. We fail to recognize our most obvious traits: our strengths, weaknesses, mannerisms.

It is dangerous to make everybody go forward by the same road: and worse to measure others by oneself.

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing and God everything.

We esteem, honor, and love the apostles more than the other saints, because they served God more faithfully and because they loved Him more perfectly.