You must attend to both kinds of mortification, interior and exterior; but with this difference, that the former is the principal, to be sought always and by everyone, the latter is to be measured by the circumstances of place, person, and time.

St Ignatius

Spend whatever is necessary on the care of the sick; we who are well can easily manage with dry bread, if there is nothing else.

St Ignatius

God’s liberality will supply in abundance from its own store the gain that he sees you despise for his sake.

St Ignatius

The shortest—almost the only—path to salvation is to turn resolutely away from everything that the world loves and cleaves to.

St Ignatius

Men of great virtue, though their learning for their neighbors’ help be small, preach more eloquently and persuade their people to goodness more powerfully by their appearance than they could by rhetorical skill, however highly instructed they were.

St Ignatius