It is stupid to neglect an immediate opportunity of serving God in the hope of doing something greater in future: for it may well be that you will lose the one without gaining the other.

St Ignatius

As often as we manifest others’ failings we show up our own.

St Ignatius

The difference between a pious man and a vain one is that the one abstains from earthly things and abounds in spiritual consolations: the other delights in sensuous things and is tormented by interior ones.

St Ignatius

Nothing is hard to a man whose will is set on it, especially if it be a thing to be done out of love.

St Ignatius

How much a man loses, not only of liberty but of authority, who accepts gifts!

St Ignatius