God freely created us so that we might know, love, and serve him in this life and be happy with him forever. God's purpose in creating us is to draw forth from us a response of love and service here on earth, so that we may attain our goal of everlasting happiness with him in heaven.
All the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come to know him better, love him more surely, and serve him more faithfully.
As a result, we ought to appreciate and use these gifts of God insofar as they help us toward our goal of loving service and union with God. But insofar as any created things hinder our progress toward our goal, we ought to let them go.


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DAVID IGNATIUS
He who aims at making an entire and perfect oblation of himself, in addition to his will, must offer...
SAINT IGNATIUS
2011 is one of those years that historians are likely to look back on as a 'hinge.' And the ...
DAVID IGNATIUS
If you walk into the front hallway of the CIA, you will see, on your left, a statue of William '...
DAVID IGNATIUS
Images sometimes capture particular periods in history. The unreachable green light, beckoning from ...
DAVID IGNATIUS
They're all cousins. So, we have three different families that are having to deal with such a tragic...
IGNATIUS CARROLL
If you want better behavior from bankers, then make their financial incentives more like those in th...
DAVID IGNATIUS
Make the financial industry pay for its mistakes. That's the idea behind the best of the Obama a...
DAVID IGNATIUS
When we lift our hands in praise and worship, we break spiritual jars of perfume over Jesus. The fra...
DENNIS IGNATIUS
Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The o...
SAINT IGNATIUS
So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, ...
SAINT IGNATIUS
While studying at Barcelona, Ignatius was in doubt whether, after completing his studies, he should ...
SAINT IGNATIUS
A piece of equipment from the crane either fell, came loose, came crashing down, knocking this emplo...
IGNATIUS CARROLL
President Obama was right to ban torture, but the public must understand that this decision carries ...
DAVID IGNATIUS
A disaffected America can be drawn into a civilized - but disruptive - dialogue about political chan...
DAVID IGNATIUS
The wellbeing of the head resounds throughout the whole body, and as are the Superiors, so, in turn,...
SAINT IGNATIUS
Yes, Europe needs to be more welcoming, but that's only half of it. Muslims need to embrace the ...
DAVID IGNATIUS
I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy s...
DAVID IGNATIUS
Real security will come when it's a moneymaker for private companies who want to satisfy public ...
DAVID IGNATIUS
Concerning the harsh treatment of the body for our Lord's sake, I would say, avoid anything that...
SAINT IGNATIUS
My guess is that before Obama departs, he will adopt some of the more aggressive military options he...
DAVID IGNATIUS
I've tried, in 'Bloodmoney,' to tell a story that gets at the crazy relationship between...
DAVID IGNATIUS
The surest way to empower the new terrorist gangs would be to withdraw from U.S. diplomatic missions...
DAVID IGNATIUS
Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and a...
SAINT IGNATIUS
Sometimes good countries are so traumatized by events that they lose their bearings and embrace bad ...
DAVID IGNATIUS
When historians look at the Obama presidency, they're likely to credit him especially for doing ...
DAVID IGNATIUS
Tourism now ranks as one of the areas of economic growth.
IGNATIUS CHICHA
The political problems in Zimbabwe created an opportunity for Zambia to boost its tourism.
IGNATIUS CHICHA
It's one thing to write [these plans] out, but it's another thing to actually perform them, because ...
IGNATIUS CARROLL
Is there a chance that this crane will collapse? Is there a chance that just a section of it will ju...
IGNATIUS CARROLL
That's another question, too: Was it secured properly, or were they in the process of doing that and...
IGNATIUS CARROLL
They were able to approach this individual who was hanging, telling him, 'Listen, to stay calm, and ...
IGNATIUS CARROLL
Panic is a natural human response to danger, but it's one that severely compounds the risk.
DAVID IGNATIUS
'Cyber-security' is one of those hot topics that has launched a thousand seminars and strate...
DAVID IGNATIUS
We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political, and material ruin. Corrup...
IGNATIUS L. DONNELLY
A true Christian is made by faith and love toward Christ. Our sins do not in the least hinder our Ch...
LETTERS OF ST. HERMAN OF ALASKA
Teachers greatly influence how students perceive and approach struggle in the mathematics classroom....
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF MATHEMATICS
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, alt...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be t...
JOAN OF ARC
In the light of faith I am strong, constant, and persevering.
CATHERINE OF SIENA
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and...
JOAN OF ARC
It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the du...
JOAN OF ARC
About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing.
JOAN OF ARC
Act, and God will act.
JOAN OF ARC
If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.
JOAN OF ARC
You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, bec...
JOAN OF ARC
Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. ...
JOAN OF ARC
Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
JOAN OF ARC
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity,...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
The poison of selfishness destroys the world.
CATHERINE OF SIENA
Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN
I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.
JOAN OF ARC
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their ...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN
Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even th...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of...
TERESA OF AVILA
We bloomed in Spring. Our bodies are the leaves of God. The apparent seasons of life and death our e...
TERESA OF AVILA
Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind...
LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM
Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to eve...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing va...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
I am the herald of the Great King.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them brigh...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI