What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do.
Saint IgnatiusRead
For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Love can empower individuals to overcome challenges and difficulties.
This quote by Saint Ignatius highlights the profound strength that love provides, particularly when motivated by a higher purpose, such as faith in Jesus Christ. It suggests that love fosters resilience and determination, making even the most daunting tasks feel manageable and worthwhile when they are carried out with love and devotion.
Themes
LoveStrengthFaithJesusDevotionResilience
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used in a church sermon about the power of love and faith.
More from Saint Ignatius
All quotes βRemember 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.
Saint IgnatiusRead
In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.
Saint IgnatiusRead
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 endures for me.
Saint IgnatiusRead
Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent.
Saint IgnatiusRead
It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
Saint IgnatiusRead
Similar quotes
It has become necessary for me to have this woman, so as to save myself from the ridicule of being in love with her: for to what lengths will a man not be driven by thwarted desire?
Pierre Choderlos De LaclosRead
Don't you need a fountain of love that won't run dry? You'll find one on a stone-cropped hill outside Jerusalem's walls where Jesus hangs, cross-nailed and thorn-crowned. When you feel unloved, ascend this mount. Meditate long and hard on heaven's love for you.
Max LucadoRead
Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
Alexander PopeRead
If I am perturbed by the reproach and misunderstanding that may follow action taken for the good of souls for whom I must give account; if I cannot commit the matter and go on in peace and in silence, remembering Gethsemane and the cross, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
Amy CarmichaelRead
Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?
Maya AngelouRead
Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.
William ShakespeareRead