Frases de Ignacio de Loyola

„Alcanza la excelencia y compártela.“

—  Ignacio de Loyola

Sin fuentes

„Quien evita la tentación evita el pecado.“

—  Ignacio de Loyola

Sin fuentes

„Hay que procurar conservar la amistad y benevolencia de los que gobiernan y ganar a las personas de autoridad con humildad, modestia y buenos oficios.“

—  Ignacio de Loyola

„Cuanto más nuestra alma se despegue de las cosas, más cerca estará de nuestro Creador.“

—  Ignacio de Loyola

„En tiempo de desolación nunca hacer mudanza". (Ejercicios espirituales EE318).“

—  Ignacio de Loyola

„Para estar bien seguros, debemos sostener lo siguiente: lo que ante mis ojos aparece como blanco, debo considerarlo negro, si la jerarquía de la Iglesia lo considera así.“

—  Ignacio de Loyola

Muestra de la lealtad jesuita a la Iglesia http://www.profesorenlinea.cl/swf/links/frame_top.php?dest=http%3A//www.profesorenlinea.cl/biografias/LoyolaIgnaciode.htm.

„La renuncia de la voluntad propia vale más que resucitar a los muertos.“

—  Ignacio de Loyola

„¿De qué te sirve ganar el mundo, si al final pierdes tu alma?“

—  Ignacio de Loyola

Preguntado a Francisco de Javier, parafraseando las palabras de Jesús en los Evangelios ( Marcos 8, 36 http://www.vatican.va/archive/ESL0506/__PUP.HTM y Mateo 16, 26 http://www.vatican.va/archive/ESL0506/__PU5.HTM).
Fuente: Compañía de Jesús, provincia de Aragón: Ignacio de Loyola http://www.jesuitasaragon.es/pages/E2BFquienes-somos/san-ignacio.php, Alfa y Omega: La huella de Javier http://www.alfayomega.es/estatico/anteriores/alfayomega466/raices/raices.html.

„Para aquellos que creen, ninguna prueba es necesaria. Para aquellos que no creen, ninguna cantidad de pruebas es suficiente.“

—  Ignacio de Loyola

Fuente: Frases Celebres de la Ufología http://www.elforro.com/religion-y-esoterismo/39758-frases-celebres-de-ufologia.html.

„Imagine that leader of all the enemy, in that great plain of Babylon, sitting on a sort of throne of smoking flame, a horrible and terrifying sight. Watch him calling together countless devils, to despatch them into different cities till the whole world is covered, forgetting no province or locality, no class or single individual.“

—  Ignatius of Loyola

No. 140-141.
Spiritual Exercises (1548)

„Up to his twenty-sixth year the heart of Ignatius was enthralled by the vanities of the world. His special delight was in the military life, and he seemed led by a strong and empty desire of gaining for himself a great name.“

—  Ignatius of Loyola

Ignatius describing himself in the third person, in The Autobiography of St. Ignatius

„Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, All I have and call my own. You have given all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and your grace, that is enough for me.“

—  Ignatius of Loyola

Suscipe prayer of Saint Ignatius

„We should always be prepared so as never to err to believe that what I see as white is black, if the hierarchic Church defines it thus.“

—  Ignatius of Loyola

No. 365.
Spiritual Exercises (1548)

„I have studied at Barcelona, at Salamanca, at Alcala, at Paris; what have I learned? The language of doubt; but in me there was no harbor for doubt. Jesus came, and my trust in God has grown by the doubts of men.“

—  Ignatius of Loyola

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 599.

„The enemy is like a woman, weak in face of opposition, but correspondingly strong when not opposed. In a quarrel with a man, it is natural for a woman to lose heart and run away when he faces up to her; on the other hand, if the man begins to be afraid and to give ground, her rage, vindictiveness and fury overflow and know no limit.“

—  Ignatius of Loyola

No. 325.
Spiritual Exercises (1548)

„The picture. A great plain, comprising the entire Jerusalem district, where is the supreme Commander-in-Chief of the forces of good, Christ our Lord: another plain near Babylon, where Lucifer is, at the head of the enemy.“

—  Ignatius of Loyola

No. 138.
Spiritual Exercises (1548)

„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.“

—  Ignatius of Loyola

No. 58.
Spiritual Exercises (1548)

„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 causes suffering but not sickness. So the best way seems to be to scourge oneself with thin cords which hurt superficially, rather than to use some other means which might produce serious internal injury.“

—  Ignatius of Loyola

No. 86.
Spiritual Exercises (1548)