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2025-08-29 10:42:16 UTC

If we are close to Christ and are following in his footsteps, we will wholeheartedly love poverty, privation and detachment from earthly things.

2025-08-28 22:39:20 UTC

With a supernatural outlook, with serenity and peace. That is the way to see things, people and events — from the viewpoint of eternity.
And then, whatever barrier blocks your way — even if it is, humanly speaking, enormous — when you really raise your eyes to Heaven, how tiny it becomes!

2025-08-27 10:52:21 UTC

To you, who like sports, the Apostle's argument should appeal: 'All the runners at the stadium are trying to win, but only one of them gets the prize. You must run in the same way, meaning to win'.

2025-08-26 11:14:26 UTC

Never make a decision without stopping to consider the matter in the presence of God.

2025-08-25 11:26:21 UTC

You went astray, and did not come back because you were ashamed to. It would be more logical if you were ashamed not to return.

2025-08-24 10:00:40 UTC

You asked Our Lord to let you suffer a little for Him. But when suffering comes in such a normal, human form — family difficulties and problems… or those thousand awkward things of ordinary life — you find it hard to see Christ behind it. —Open your hands willingly to those nails… and your sorrow will be turned into joy.

2025-08-23 10:50:35 UTC

Do your duty 'now', without looking back on 'yesterday', which has already passed, or worrying over 'to-morrow', which may never come for you.

2025-08-22 09:09:41 UTC

Don't be a pessimist. Don't you realise that all that happens or can happen is for the best?
Your optimism will be a necessary consequence of your faith.

2025-08-21 09:48:26 UTC

Get used to lifting your heart to God, in acts of thanksgiving, many times a day. Because he gives you this and that. Because you have been despised. Because you haven't what you need or because you have.
Because he made his Mother so beautiful, his Mother who is also your Mother. Because he created the sun and the moon and this animal and that plant. Because he made that man eloquent and you he left tongue-tied…
Thank him for everything, because everything is good.

2025-08-20 10:51:13 UTC

Have you seen the dead leaves fall in the sad autumn twilight? Thus souls fall each day into eternity. One day, the falling leaf will be you.

2025-08-19 11:20:11 UTC

You say that you don't know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and once you have said, 'Lord, I don't know how to pray!' rest assured that you have begun to do so.

2025-08-18 09:42:29 UTC

To save mankind, Lord, you died on the Cross. And yet for one mortal sin you condemn a man to a hapless eternity of suffering. How much sin must offend you, and how much I ought to hate it!

2025-08-17 11:04:56 UTC

Dreadful will the judgement appear for those who knew the way perfectly well, showed it to others or demanded that they should follow it, but would not go along it themselves.
—God will judge and condemn them out of their own mouths.

2025-08-16 10:57:57 UTC

Anyone who hides a temptation from his director shares a secret with the devil. —He has become a friend of the enemy.

2025-08-15 10:16:02 UTC

Never speak of impure things or events, not even to lament them. Remember that such matter is stickier than pitch. Change the subject or, if that is not possible, continue with it, speaking of the need and the beauty of purity — a virtue of men who know the value of their souls.

2025-08-14 09:47:37 UTC

Over-eating is the forerunner of impurity.
• Text in chapter 'Holy purity' in the book 'The Way' of Josemaría Escrivá. Link: https://escriva.org/en/camino/holy-purity/