Josemaria Escriva Quotes

The holy Rosary is a powerful weapon. Use it with confidence and you'll be amazed at the results.

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!

You're bored? That's because you keep your senses awake and your soul asleep.

You were very hurt at being slighted. That means you are forgetting too easily who you are.

Don't say, "That person bothers me." Think: "That person sanctifies me".

For everyone, whatever his state
single, married, widowed, or priest-chastity is a triumphant affirmation of love.

At the time of your examination(of sins) beware of the devil that ties your tongue.

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!

If thy right eye scandalize thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee! Your poor heart, that's what scandalizes you!

Press it, squeeze it tight in your hands: give it no consolations. And when it asks for them, say to it slowly and with a noble compassion - in confidence, as it were: 'Heart, heart on the Cross, heart on the Cross!

You need a heart which is in love, not an easy life, to achieve happiness.

Holy Purity is granted by God when it is asked for with humility.

If you have so many defects, why are you surprised to find defects in others?

To begin is for everyone. To persevere is for saints.

That conversation ... was as dirty as a sewer! It is not enough for you to take no part in it. You must show your repugnance for it strongly!

When you decide firmly to lead a clean life, chastity will not be a burden on you: it will be a crown of triumph.

All the things that are now worrying you can be put into a smile which shows your love of God.

If you don't have a plan of life, you'll never have order.

Either we learn to find the Lord in the ordinary everyday life or else we shall never find him

Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight.

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.

'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.

Temptation is necessary to make us realize that we are nothing in ourselves.

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.

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 ...

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.

Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence.

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.

Faith, joy, optimism. But not the folly of closing your eyes to reality.

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."

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.

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.

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.

An hour of study, for the modern apostle, is an hour of prayer.

The enemy: Will you obey ... even in this 'ridiculous' little detail? You, with God's grace: I will obey ... even in this 'heroic' little detail.

191 Conquer yourself each day from the very first moment, getting up on the dot, at a set time, without granting a single minute to laziness. If, with the help of God, you conquer yourself in that moment, you'll have accomplished a great deal for the rest of the day. It's so discouraging to find yourself beaten in the first skirmish!

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.

When you approach the tabernacle remember that he has been waiting for you for twenty centuries.

All the sins of your life seem to be rising up against you. Don't give up hope! On the contrary, call your holy mother Mary, with the faith and abandonment of a child. She will bring peace to your soul.

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.

Among us there is no place for the lukewarm. Humble yourself, and Christ will kindle in you again the fire of love.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

If I love, there will be no hell for me.

Don't neglect your spiritual reading. - Reading has made many saints.

Love our Lady. And she will obtain abundant grace to help you conquer in your daily struggle.