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
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
For Chesterton, the ability to appreciate life was not naive optimism but a form of wisdom.
Gratitude is hardly restricted to people of faith, just as people of faith are not exempt from ingratitude.
‘At your word, Lord, I will begin again.’
"The truly virtuous person doesn’t just do the right thing; he also desires rightly."
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.
We think we need every question answered. Our brains tell us we do. We don’t.
“Please God,” I prayed, “Show me the truth, but don’t let the truth be Catholic!”