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
"Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could call everyone in our workaday world friends!"
It is a mistake to think that the natural me that I wish to flaunt is a thing of great value in itself.
We need patience to endure the sorrow that besets us so that we do not betray the good we have.
Christian materialism, instead of making us despise consumer goods, should move us to take good care of the material wealth that we possess.
We will have to help others in a way they may not notice but which lightens their burden.
The temptation of absence destroys the virtue of presence.
"I think the wise person’s essential gift is tender receptivity."
How can a donkey work if it is not fed or given enough rest, or if its spirit is broken by too many beatings?
The virtue of poverty consists in living with our heart in God, and therefore detached from material things.