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
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 gift of fortitude, which is so necessary in our path toward heaven, is obtained from God through prayer and the sacraments.
We have to learn to abandon ourselves, leaving the results of our struggle in God’s hands, for only abandonment, trust in God, can overcome this unrest.
"Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could call everyone in our workaday world friends!"
For Chesterton, the ability to appreciate life was not naive optimism but a form of wisdom.
We think we need every question answered. Our brains tell us we do. We don’t.
If with the help of grace we reject the ‘tongue-tied’ devil, we will find that one of the immediate fruits of sincerity is joy and peace in our souls.
"I think the wise person’s essential gift is tender receptivity."
"We have to win Heaven with our ordinary work. "