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
Gratitude is hardly restricted to people of faith, just as people of faith are not exempt from ingratitude.
The role of the laity in the Church is to sanctify the temporal order from within.
“Please God,” I prayed, “Show me the truth, but don’t let the truth be Catholic!”
We are not called to spiritual mediocrity – to be just nice guys. We are called to holiness.
The virtue of poverty consists in living with our heart in God, and therefore detached from material things.
It is necessary for one to know, to hope and to struggle with persevering patience, realising that this is what pleases God.
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.
A pusillanimous person is a man of closed horizons, resigned to just getting along. He has no high ambitions.