Top 34 The Way Escriva Quotes
#1. You can be sure you are a man of God if you suffer injustice gladly and in silence.
Josemaria Escriva
#2. 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.
Josemaria Escriva
#3. Love our Lady. And she will obtain abundant grace to help you conquer in your daily struggle.
Josemaria Escriva
#4. How I wish your bearing and conversation were such that, on seeing or hearing you, people would say: 'This man reads the life of Jesus Christ.
Josemaria Escriva
#5. Temptation is necessary to make us realize that we are nothing in ourselves.
Josemaria Escriva
#7. 290 To reform. Every day a little. This has to be your constant task if you really want to become a saint.
Josemaria Escriva
#8. When you decide firmly to lead a clean life, chastity will not be a burden on you: it will be a crown of triumph.
Josemaria Escriva
#9. Either we learn to find the Lord in the ordinary everyday life or else we shall never find him
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#10. When we were little, we kept close to our mother in a dark alley or if dogs barked at us. Now, when we feel temptations of the flesh, we should run to the side of our Mother in Heaven, by realizing how she is to us, and by means of aspirations. She will defend us and lead us to the light.
Josemaria Escriva
#11. For everyone, whatever his state
single, married, widowed, or priest-chastity is a triumphant affirmation of love.
Josemaria Escriva
#12. Faith, joy, optimism. But not the folly of closing your eyes to reality.
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#13. He has much who needs least. Do not create necessities for yourself.
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#14. Holy Purity is granted by God when it is asked for with humility.
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#15. We all must have the faith of children, but the doctrine of theologians.
Josemaria Escriva
#16. After seeing how many people waste their lives, their whole lives (tongues wagging, wagging, wagging, and all the inevitable consequences), silence seems preferable to me, and more necessary than ever. And I well understand, Lord, why we have to give an account of all our idle words.
Josemaria Escriva
#17. 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.
Josemaria Escriva
#18. Don't say, "That person bothers me." Think: "That person sanctifies me".
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#19. 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.
Josemaria Escriva
#20. Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence.
Josemaria Escriva
#21. 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.
Josemaria Escriva
#22. 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.
Josemaria Escriva
#23. 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.
Josemaria Escriva
#24. 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.
Josemaria Escriva
#25. 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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#26. Before, by yourself, you couldn't. Now, you've turned to our Lady, and with her, how easy!
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#27. 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."
Josemaria Escriva
#28. '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.
Josemaria Escriva
#29. You were very hurt at being slighted. That means you are forgetting too easily who you are.
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#30. If you have so many defects, why are you surprised to find defects in others?
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#31. 35 There are many pretty terms I don't like: you call cowardice "prudence." Your "prudence" gives an opportunity to those enemies of God, without any ideas in their heads, to pass themselves off as scholars, and so reach positions that they never should attain.
Josemaria Escriva
#32. The holy Rosary is a powerful weapon. Use it with confidence and you'll be amazed at the results.
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#33. An hour of study, for the modern apostle, is an hour of prayer.
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#34. 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.
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