英文基督教箴言.doc

Thoughts of St.Ignatius Loyola For Every Day Of The Year All for the greater glory of God! St. Ignatius repeats these words and their like 376 times in his Constitutions. 2, Let your first rule of action be to trust in God as if success depended entirely on yourself and not on him: but use all your efforts as if God alone did everything, and yourself nothing. 3. The man who sets about making others better is wasting his time, unless he begins with himself. 4. It is wrong to entrust difficult and dangerous affairs to the strength of young people. 5. You may be sure that the progress you make in spiritual things will be in proportion to the degree of your withdrawal from self-love and concern for your own welfare. 6. Great is the liberality of God: from him I obtain what I cannot get from men. Though they give me nothing, I shall gain all things from God. 7. Charity and kindness unwedded to truth are not charity and kindness but deceit and vanity. 8. The true religious is he who is wholly free not only from the world but from himself as well. 9. The evils of vanity and vainglory arise from ignorance and blind self-love. 10. To leave God for God’s sake is not loss, but great profit, on the soul’s balance sheet. 11. Life would be unbearable to me if I found lurking in my soul anything human and not wholly divine. 12. We ought to consider not only God, but also men for his sake. 13. Much more danger lurks in making light of little sins than of great ones. 14. When the devil wants to attack and harass a man with peculiar bitterness, he prefers to work at night. 15. It is dangerous to make everybody go forward by the same road: and worse to measure others by oneself. 16. It is a mistake to spend on prayer the efforts that ought to be directed to getting the affections under control. 17. Never say or do anything until you have asked yourself whether it will be pleasing to God, good