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
It is a mistake to think that the natural me that I wish to flaunt is a thing of great value in itself.
"Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could call everyone in our workaday world friends!"
He who knows himself to be a son of God knows no fear.
The virtue of poverty consists in living with our heart in God, and therefore detached from material things.
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 gift of fortitude, which is so necessary in our path toward heaven, is obtained from God through prayer and the sacraments.
Forgetting about self is not simply an ascetical technique. It is a divine gift that radically transforms the soul, making it understand and love, for God, with God and in God.