Josemaria Escriva Quotes

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• You need a heart which is in love, not an easy life, to achieve happiness.
• You can be sure you are a man of God if you suffer injustice gladly and in silence.
• At the time of your examination(of sins) beware of the devil that ties your tongue.
• 'You told me, Father, that after my past life it is still possible to become another St. Augustine. I don't doubt it, and today more…
• When you approach the tabernacle remember that he has been waiting for you for twenty centuries.
• Many Christians take their time and have leisure enough in their social life (no hurry here). They are leisurely, too, in their professionally activities, at…
• Don't you long to shout to those youths who are bustling around you: Fools! Leave those worldly things that shackle the heart - and very…
• We all must have the faith of children, but the doctrine of theologians.
• I assure you, my children, that when a Christian carries out with love the most insignificant everyday action, that action overflows with the transcendence of…
• Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to…
• You must realise now, more clearly than ever, that God is calling you to serve Him in and from the ordinary, secular and civil activities…
• There is need for a crusade of manliness and purity to counteract and nullify the savage work of those who think man is a beast.…
• If you don't have a plan of life, you'll never have order.
• God is here. This truth should fill our lives, and every Christmas should be for us a new and special meeting with God, when we…
• Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence.
• Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight.
• You're bored? That's because you keep your senses awake and your soul asleep.
• If I love, there will be no hell for me.
• Put your heart aside. Duty comes first. But when fulfilling your duty, put your heart into it. It helps.
• Christian optimism is not a sugary optimism, nor is it a mere human confidence that everything will turn out all right. It is an optimism…

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