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
If with the help of grace we reject the ‘tongue-tied’ devil, we will find that one of the immediate fruits of sincerity is joy and peace in our souls.
Love makes suffering fruitful and suffering deepens love.
It is a mistake to think that the natural me that I wish to flaunt is a thing of great value in itself.
"Following Our Lord means living a life of small and great acts of madness, as is always the case where true love is concerned. "
The gift of fortitude, which is so necessary in our path toward heaven, is obtained from God through prayer and the sacraments.
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.
The virtue of poverty consists in living with our heart in God, and therefore detached from material things.
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.