Ignatius of Loyola: Greatness

Ignatius of Loyola was Catholic Saint, founder of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits). Explore interesting quotes on greatness.
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“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)

Christ

“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)

World , Imagination , Forgetting

“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

World , Strong , Life , Heart