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
If God is our God, and if God is our All, there should be no limit to our confidence and hope in Him. Yet, as a matter of experience, one sees that it is often through want of confidence that men turn away from the pursuit of perfection.
"I think the wise person’s essential gift is tender receptivity."
Gratitude is hardly restricted to people of faith, just as people of faith are not exempt from ingratitude.
The gift of fortitude, which is so necessary in our path toward heaven, is obtained from God through prayer and the sacraments.
"Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them."
How pleasant it is when a friend comes to us in the midst of some difficulty and says: You can count on me!
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.
For Chesterton, the ability to appreciate life was not naive optimism but a form of wisdom.