What Do You Really Want? St. Ignatius Loyola and the Art of Discernment Quotes

“Psychologists talk about the three parts of the mind: the cognitive (reason and other mental processes), the conative (the will), and the affective (feelings and emotions). All of these are involved in the choices we make, but the engine that drives the train is the affective power. The traditional word for it is “heart.”
― Jim Manney, What Do You Really Want? St. Ignatius Loyola and the Art of Discernment

“Nothing human is merely human,” writes the theologian Ronald Modras. “No common labor is merely common. Classrooms, hospitals, and artists’ studios are sacred spaces. No secular pursuit of science is merely secular.” Everything that deepens our humanity deepens our knowledge of God.”
― Jim Manney, What Do You Really Want? St. Ignatius Loyola and the Art of Discernment

“He dwells in me and gives me being, life, sensation, intelligence; and makes a temple of me, since I am created in the likeness and image of the Divine Majesty.”
― Jim Manney, What Do You Really Want? St. Ignatius Loyola and the Art of Discernment