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
"Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them."
He who knows himself to be a son of God knows no fear.
"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.
Love makes suffering fruitful and suffering deepens love.
Christian materialism, instead of making us despise consumer goods, should move us to take good care of the material wealth that we possess.
It is a mistake to think that the natural me that I wish to flaunt is a thing of great value in itself.
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.
How pleasant it is when a friend comes to us in the midst of some difficulty and says: You can count on me!