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
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.
Christian materialism, instead of making us despise consumer goods, should move us to take good care of the material wealth that we possess.
The virtue of poverty consists in living with our heart in God, and therefore detached from material things.
"Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them."
It is necessary for one to know, to hope and to struggle with persevering patience, realising that this is what pleases God.
The role of the laity in the Church is to sanctify the temporal order from within.
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
‘At your word, Lord, I will begin again.’
Forgiveness, then, is the requirement for a true worship of God.