#st ignatius of loyola

“Take Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, all that I have and possess. Thou hast given all to me. To Thee, O Lord, I return it. All is Thine, dispose of it wholly according to Thy will. Give me Thy love and thy grace, for this is sufficient for me.” - St. Ignatius Loyola

Image: St. Bruno Praying in Desert by Nicolas Mignard 

(St. Bruno founded the Carthusian order) 

“Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God Our Lord, and by this means to save his soul. The other things on the face of the Earth are created for man to help him in attaining the end for which he was created. Hence, man is to make use of them insofar as they help him in the attainment of his end, and he must rid himself of them insofar as they prove a hindrance to him. Therefore, we must make ourselves indifferent to all created things.” - St. Ignatius Loyola, First Principle and Foundation.

Image: “Charity of St. Elizabeth of Hungary” (detail) by Edmund Blair Leighton