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Ignatius of Loyola
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“I have studied at Barcelona, at Salamanca, at Alcala, at Paris; what have I learned? The language of doubt; but in me there was no harbor for doubt. Jesus came, and my trust in God has grown by the doubts of men.”
Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556) said by 1556 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 599.
“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 it what you will. Give me only your love and your grace, that is enough for me.”
Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556) said by 1556 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Up to his twenty-sixth year the heart of Ignatius was enthralled by the vanities of the world. His special delight was in the military life, and he seemed led by a strong and empty desire of gaining for himself a great name.”
Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556) said by 1556 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.”
Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556) said by 1556 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness. So the best way seems to be to scourge oneself with thin cords which hurt superficially, rather than to use some other means which might produce serious internal injury.”
Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556) said by 1556 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The picture. A great plain, comprising the entire Jerusalem district, where is the supreme Commander-in-Chief of the forces of good, Christ our Lord: another plain near Babylon, where Lucifer is, at the head of the enemy.”
Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556) said by 1556 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Imagine that leader of all the enemy, in that great plain of Babylon, sitting on a sort of throne of smoking flame, a horrible and terrifying sight. Watch him calling together countless devils, to despatch them into different cities till the whole world is covered, forgetting no province or locality, no class or single individual.”
Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556) said by 1556 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The enemy is like a woman, weak in face of opposition, but correspondingly strong when not opposed. In a quarrel with a man, it is natural for a woman to lose heart and run away when he faces up to her; on the other hand, if the man begins to be afraid and to give ground, her rage, vindictiveness and fury overflow and know no limit.”
Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556) said by 1556 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We should always be prepared so as never to err to believe that what I see as white is black, if the hierarchical Church defines it thus.”
Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556) said by 1556 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source