After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan’s temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he’ll have an incentive to leave you alone.
Ignatius of Loyola (Hermit, 1491 – 1556)
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.
Ignatius of Loyola (Hermit, 1491 – 1556)
Take, O Lord, and receive my entire liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will. All that I am and all that I possess You have given me. I surrender it all to You to be disposed of according to Your will. Give me only Your love and Your grace; with these I will be rich enough, and will desire nothing more.
Ignatius of Loyola (Hermit, 1491 – 1556)
O my God, teach me to be generous
to serve you as you deserve to be served
to give without counting the cost
to fight without fear of being wounded
to work without seeking rest
and to spend myself without expecting any reward
but the knowledge that I am doing your holy will.
Amen
Ignatius of Loyola (Hermit, 1491 – 1556)
All the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come to know him better, love him more surely, and serve him more faithfully.
Ignatius of Loyola (Hermit, 1491 – 1556)
Love ought to show itself in deeds more than in words.
Ignatius of Loyola (Hermit, 1491 – 1556)
Pray as if God will take care of all; act as if all is up to you.
Ignatius of Loyola (Hermit, 1491 – 1556)
Whatever you are doing, that which makes you feel the most alive…that is where God is.
Ignatius of Loyola (Hermit, 1491 – 1556)
He who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes.
Ignatius of Loyola (Hermit, 1491 – 1556)
But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel – that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power.
John Nelson Darby (Bible Teacher, 1800 – 1882)