Don't let your life be barren. Be useful. Make yourself felt. Shine forth with the torch of your faith and your love.
The Way #1
Josemaria Escriva
We need patience to endure the sorrow that besets us so that we do not betray the good we have.
"Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could call everyone in our workaday world friends!"
How pleasant it is when a friend comes to us in the midst of some difficulty and says: You can count on me!
Every person, regardless of their station in life, has the ability to become a saint.
Love makes suffering fruitful and suffering deepens love.
Christian materialism, instead of making us despise consumer goods, should move us to take good care of the material wealth that we possess.
Though it is perfectly natural to experience sadness over loss or injury, the virtue of patience enables us to bear suffering without being broken by sorrow or led to forsake the way of virtue.
The virtue of poverty consists in living with our heart in God, and therefore detached from material things.