To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain..

Whatever you are doing, that which makes you feel the most alive...that is where God is..

If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He certainly intends to make you a saint..

Love ought to show itself in deeds more than in words..

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who disbelieve, no amount of proof is sufficient..

If you attach your heart to certain places and occupations, obedience oftentimes places you in some other place that you may not like; to be always c….

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

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..

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

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

Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good wi….

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

Teach us to give and not to count the cost..

Teach us, Good Lord, to give and not 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 f….

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 caus….

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

Finding God in All Things..

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

What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines..

It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ end….

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….