Pardon me, O perfections of my God, for having preferred imperfect and evil inclinations to Thee! Pardon me, O justice of my God, for having outraged….

Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to fr….

God will not be outdone in generosity..

One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious..

Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous; teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost..

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor..

Idleness is hells fishhook for catching souls..

To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime..

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others..

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith..

It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross..

Calisto, a companion of Ignatius, and who on recovering from a severe illness had heard of the imprisonment of Ignatius, hastened from Segnovia, wher….

The glory of God is humankind fully alive..

It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious..

But some most worthless persons are in the habit of carrying about the name of Jesus Christ in wicked guile, while yet they practice things unworthy ….

Finding God in All Things..

We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides..

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 t….

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..

We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections..

May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples..