Quotes from Spiritual Exercises — Ignatius of Loyola
1491–1556 Spain
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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.
Spiritual Exercises (1548)
We should always be prepared so as never to err to believe that what I see as white is black, if the hierarchical Church defines it thus.
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.
Spiritual Exercises (1548)
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.
Spiritual Exercises (1548)