Josemaria Escriva Quotes
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If I love, there will be no hell for me.
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Our Lady listens attentively to what God wants, ponders what she doesn't fully understand and asks about what she doesn't know. Then she gives herself completely to doing the divine will.
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Put your heart aside. Duty comes first. But when fulfilling your duty, put your heart into it. It helps.
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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 allow his light and grace to enter deep into our soul.
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The heroic minute.- It is the time fixed for getting up.- Without hesitation: a supernatural reflection and.-.-.- up! The heroic minute: here you have a mortification that strengthens your will and does no harm to your body.
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May I give you some advice for you to put into practice daily? When your heart makes you feel those low cravings, say slowly to the Immaculate Virgin: Look on me with compassion. Don't abandon me. Don't abandon me, my Mother! - And recommend this prayer to others.
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When you see the storm coming, if you seek safety in that firm refuge which is Mary, there will be no danger of your wavering or going down.
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If you say the Holy Rosary every day, with a spirit of faith and love, our Lady will make sure she leads you very far along her Son's path.
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'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 than yesterday I want to try to prove it.' But you have to cut out sin courageously from the root, as the holy Bishop of Hippo did.
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Don't say, "That person bothers me." Think: "That person sanctifies me".
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Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight.
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So your strength is failing you? Why don't you tell your mother about it? ... Mother! Call her with a loud voice. She is listening to you; she sees you in danger, perhaps, and she-your holy mother Mary-offers you, along with the grace of her son, the refuge of her arms, the tenderness of her embrace ... and you will find yourself with added strength for the new battle.
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You always leave the Rosary for later, and you end up not saying it at all because you are sleepy. If there is no other time, say it in the street without letting anybody notice it. It will, moreover, help you to have presence of God.
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St. Joseph was an ordinary sort of man on whom God relied to do great things. He did exactly what the Lord wanted him to do, in each and every event that went to make up his life.
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Before, by yourself, you couldn't. Now, you've turned to our Lady, and with her, how easy!
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For everyone, whatever his state--single, married, widowed, or priest-chastity is a triumphant affirmation of love.
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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 table and recreation (no hurry here either). But isn't it strange how those same Christians find themselves in such a rush and want to hurry the priest, in their anxiety to shorten the time devoted to the most holy sacrifice of the altar?
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You need a heart which is in love, not an easy life, to achieve happiness.
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You can be sure you are a man of God if you suffer injustice gladly and in silence.
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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 often degrade it - leave all that and come with us in search of Love!
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You go to pray; to become a bonfire, a living flame, giving light and heat.
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To begin is easy; to persevere is sanctity.- Let your perseverance not be a blind consequence of the first impulse, the work of inertia: let it be a reflective perseverance.
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Say the Holy Rosary. Blessed be that monotony of Hail Mary's which purifies the monotony of your sins!
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Faith, joy, optimism. But not the folly of closing your eyes to reality.
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He has much who needs least. Do not create necessities for yourself.
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As soon as you willfully allow a dialogue with temptation to begin, the soul is robbed of peace, just as consent to impurity destroys grace.
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Holy Purity is granted by God when it is asked for with humility.
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If you have so many defects, why are you surprised to find defects in others?
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Have confidence. Return. Invoke our Lady and you'll be faithful.
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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 that sinks its roots into an awareness of our freedom, and the sure knowledge of the power of grace. It is an optimism that leads us to make demands on ourselves, to struggle to respond at every moment to God's call.
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