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
Every person, regardless of their station in life, has the ability to become a saint.
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.
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 truly virtuous person doesn’t just do the right thing; he also desires rightly."
The virtue of poverty consists in living with our heart in God, and therefore detached from material things.
Married couples should remember, when they receive advice and recommendations on this matter, that what they have to do is to discover what God wants of them
When the soul is happy it spreads its happiness and is an encouragement to others.
How can a donkey work if it is not fed or given enough rest, or if its spirit is broken by too many beatings?
For Chesterton, the ability to appreciate life was not naive optimism but a form of wisdom.