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.
"Following Our Lord means living a life of small and great acts of madness, as is always the case where true love is concerned. "
It is a mistake to think that the natural me that I wish to flaunt is a thing of great value in itself.
“Please God,” I prayed, “Show me the truth, but don’t let the truth be Catholic!”
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.
The temptation of absence destroys the virtue of presence.
He who knows himself to be a son of God knows no fear.
How can a donkey work if it is not fed or given enough rest, or if its spirit is broken by too many beatings?