Saint Ignatius Quotes

I just live my life. I go where I feel God is calling me.

What the purpose of my life is about is I want to become the kind of person that God wants me to become, and through my study of the scriptures, I can articulate the kind of person that God would be happy if I become.

Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.

I feel like God puts things in our lives to help prepare us for the future.

I have always hoped that it might be possible to conclude my ministry as I had begun it, as a parish priest, and this I believe to be the call of God.

I think we've overstated that God is the God who wants us to obey. Obedience is not the end game. Obedience is only our calling so that we can step into our freedom.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding.

God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.

I do need to explore my faith, because it has got lost over the years and it has been kind of tainted through experience. But I also know it's enriched my life, my dad being a Catholic.

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

Every time we've gone somewhere, it's just been better and better and God's always blessed us for following.

Each day is a step we make towards eternity and we shall continue thus to step from day to day until we take the last step, which will bring us into the presence of God.

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.

You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.

I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness.

People tend to say Christians are always judging, but the word of God convicts Christians and urges them to obey God's commands.

God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.

I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.

For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

It is very remarkable, that in the book of life, we find some almost of all kinds of occupations, who notwithstanding served God in their respective generations, and shone as so many lights in the world.

I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.