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 need patience to endure the sorrow that besets us so that we do not betray the good we have.
How can a donkey work if it is not fed or given enough rest, or if its spirit is broken by too many beatings?
The virtue of poverty consists in living with our heart in God, and therefore detached from material things.
"Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could call everyone in our workaday world friends!"
Gratitude is hardly restricted to people of faith, just as people of faith are not exempt from ingratitude.
"Following Our Lord means living a life of small and great acts of madness, as is always the case where true love is concerned. "
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.
"We have to win Heaven with our ordinary work. "
Christian materialism, instead of making us despise consumer goods, should move us to take good care of the material wealth that we possess.