Ignatius Of Loyola Quotes

December 24, 1491 – July 31, 1556

Saint Ignatius of Loyola (December 24, 1491 – July 31, 1556), also known as Ignacio (Iñigo) López de Loyola, was the principal founder and first Superior General of the Society of Jesus, a religious order of the Catholic Church professing direct service to the Pope in terms of mission. Members of the order are called Jesuits.

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, No. 138 (1548)

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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))

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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.

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— No. 365 (Spiritual Exercises (1548))

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Ignatius Of Loyola Quotes

December 24, 1491 – July 31, 1556

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