Josemaria Escriva
Don't say, "That person bothers me." Think: "That person sanctifies me".Collection: Thinking
Either we learn to find the Lord in the ordinary everyday life or else we shall never find himCollection: Everyday
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 discover it.Collection: Faith
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 of human life. He waits for us everyday, in the laboratory, in the operating theatre, in the army barracks, in the university chair, in the factory, in the workshop, in the fileds, in the home and in all the immense panorama of work.Collection: Faith
To begin is for everyone. To persevere is for saints.Collection: Saint
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 God. That is why I have told you so often, and hammered away at it, that the Christian vocation consists in making heroic verse out of the prose of each day. Heaven and earth seem to merge, my children, on the horizon. But where they really meet is in your hearts, when you sanctify your everyday lives.Collection: Faith
You need a heart which is in love, not an easy life, to achieve happiness.Collection: Love You
Put your heart aside. Duty comes first. But when fulfilling your duty, put your heart into it. It helps.Collection: Heart
You don't know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and as soon as you have said, 'Lord, I don't know how to pray!' you can be sure you have already begun.Collection: Saint
You're bored? That's because you keep your senses awake and your soul asleep.Collection: Bored
Say the Holy Rosary. Blessed be that monotony of Hail Mary's which purifies the monotony of your sins!Collection: Blessed
All the things that are now worrying you can be put into a smile which shows your love of God.Collection: Worry
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.Collection: Perseverance
If you have so many defects, why are you surprised to find defects in others?Collection: Defects
He has much who needs least. Do not create necessities for yourself.Collection: Needs
When you approach the tabernacle remember that he has been waiting for you for twenty centuries.Collection: Christian
Love our Lady. And she will obtain abundant grace to help you conquer in your daily struggle.Collection: Religious
Don't neglect your spiritual reading. - Reading has made many saints.Collection: Spiritual
To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thorn bush, and Saint Bernard plunged into an icy pond... You - what have you done?Collection: Snow
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.Collection: Catholic
An hour of study, for the modern apostle, is an hour of prayer.Collection: Prayer
Among us there is no place for the lukewarm. Humble yourself, and Christ will kindle in you again the fire of love.Collection: Humble
Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence.Collection: Thinking
Faith, joy, optimism. But not the folly of closing your eyes to reality.Collection: Eye
If you don't have a plan of life, you'll never have order.Collection: Order
You can be sure you are a man of God if you suffer injustice gladly and in silence.Collection: Men
We all must have the faith of children, but the doctrine of theologians.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Christmas
Holy Purity is granted by God when it is asked for with humility.Collection: Humility
'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.Collection: Father
Turn to Mary, tota pulchra, all pure and wonderful, and tell her: Our Lady and Mother, the Lord wanted you yourself to look after God and tend him with your own hands. Teach me, teach us all, how to treat your Son!Collection: Mother
Before, by yourself, you couldn't. Now, you've turned to our Lady, and with her, how easy!Collection: Religious
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.Collection: Giving
There is no danger of exaggerating. We an never hope to fathom this inexpressible mystery nor will we ever be able to give sufficient thanks to our Mother for bringing us into such intimacy with the Blessed Trinity.Collection: Mother
Have confidence. Return. Invoke our Lady and you'll be faithful.Collection: Religious
At the time of your examination(of sins) beware of the devil that ties your tongue.Collection: God
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.Collection: Temptation
The holy Rosary is a powerful weapon. Use it with confidence and you'll be amazed at the results.Collection: Powerful
Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight.Collection: Fighting
When you decide firmly to lead a clean life, chastity will not be a burden on you: it will be a crown of triumph.Collection: Triumph
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.Collection: Christian
If I love, there will be no hell for me.Collection: Hell
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.Collection: Christian
You strayed from the way and did not return because you were ashamed. It would be more logical if you were ashamed not to return.Collection: Saint
Is it not true that your gloominess and bad temper are due to your lack of determination in breaking the subtle snares laid by your own disordered desires? The daily examination of conscience is an indispensible help if we are to follow our Lord with sincerity of heart and integrity of life.Collection: Determination
For those who use their intelligence and their study as a weapon, the Rosary is most effective. Because that apparently monotonous way of beseeching Our Lady as children do their Mother, can destroy every seed of vainglory and pride.Collection: Mother
It's true he was a sinner. But don't pass so final a judgement. Have pity in your heart and don't forget that he may yet be an Augustine, while you remain just another mediocrity.Collection: Heart
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. And that crusade is your work.Collection: Faith
You go to pray; to become a bonfire, a living flame, giving light and heat.Collection: Light
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.Collection: Men