Best St. Josemaria Escriva Quotes

[Fidei Defensor]

"You complain? And you tell me you have reason to complain: “One pinprick after another...!”
But do you not realise that it is silly to be surprised at finding thorns among roses?"  Furrow 237

"The Cross on your breast?... Very good. But the Cross on your shoulders, the Cross in your flesh, the Cross in your mind. Only then will you live for Christ, with Christ and in Christ; only then will you be an apostle." The Way 929

"Among the roses, kiss the Cross."

[Fidei Defensor]

"Omnia possibilia sunt credenti. Everything is possible for anyone who has faith. The words are Christ's.

How is it that you don't say to him with the Apostles: 'Increase my faith' ?" The Way 588

[NotreDame]

Last week you were a gay atheist and now you are quoting the founder of Opus Dei?   Perhaps there is a middle ground in between?

[Fidei Defensor]

Last week you were a gay atheist and now you are quoting the founder of Opus Dei?   Perhaps there is a middle ground in between?

I have always had a fondness for the writings of St. Josemaria Escriva

[Ancilla Domini]

"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!"
-St. Josemaria Escriva

[Oremoose]

[Fidei Defensor]

"Another fall, and what a fall! Must you give up hope? No. Humble yourself and, through Mary, your Mother, have recourse to the merciful Love of Jesus. A miserere, and lift up your heart! And now begin again." The Way 711

[Fidei Defensor]

"If a man had died to save me from death!... God died, And I remain indifferent." The Way 437

[Fidei Defensor]

"And what of the means? — They are the same as those of Peter and of Paul, of Dominic and Francis, of Ignatius and Xavier: the Cross and the Gospel...

Don't they satisfy you?

In your apostolic undertakings you are right — it's your duty — to consider what means the world can offer you (2+2=4), but don't forget — ever! — that, fortunately, your calculations must include another term: God+2+2...

Serve your God unwaveringly, be faithful to him, and worry about nothing else. For it is indeed true that 'if you set your hearts on the kingdom of God and on his righteousness, he will give you all these other things — material necessities, the means — as well'." The Way 470, 471, 472

[Ash Wednesday]

This is one of my favorites regarding persistence in prayer or when I feel that work is tedious.
 

Oh blessed perseverance of the donkey that turns the water-wheel! Always the same pace. Always the same circles. One day after another: everyday the same. Without that, there would be no ripeness in the fruit, nor blossom in the orchard, nor scent of flowers in the garden. Carry this thought to your interior life.
The Way, 998

[Winchester]

"If you burn my toast one more time, I will stab you in the throat with my strawberry fork"

 

 

[Fidei Defensor]

"You ask me to suggest a cure for your sadness. I'll give you a prescription from an expert adviser, the Apostle Saint James:

Tristatur aliquis vestrum, are you sad, my son? Oret! Pray! Try it and you will see." The Way 663

[Fidei Defensor]

"How can you dare use that spark of divine intelligence — your mind — in anything but in giving glory to your Lord?" The Way 782

[Fidei Defensor]

"You are distracted in prayer. — Try to avoid distractions, but don't worry if in spite of everything your mind still wanders.

Don't you see how in ordinary life even the most considerate children play with the things about them, and often pay no attention to what their father is saying? This does not imply a lack of love or respect: it is the weakness and littleness peculiar to a child.

Then, look: you are a child before God." The Way 890

[Fidei Defensor]

"I copy some words which a priest wrote for those who followed him in an apostolic enterprise: “When you contemplate the Sacred Host exposed on the altar in the monstrance, think how great is the love, the tenderness of Christ. My way to understand it is by thinking of the love I have for you: if I could be far away, working, and at the same time at the side of each one of you, how gladly I would do it!

But Christ really can do it! He loves us with a love that is infinitely greater than the love that all the hearts of the world could hold; and he has stayed with us so that we can join ourselves at any time to his most Sacred Humanity, and so that he can help us, console us, strengthen us, so that we may be faithful.” The Forge 838

[Oremoose]

[Fidei Defensor]

"Be more daring still, and, when you need something, don’t ask, but — always mindful of the Fiat — say, ‘Jesus, I want that… and that… and that’, for this is the way children ask."

[Seven77]

"The Christian vocation consists of making heroic verse out of the prose of each day."

 

(Passionately Loving the World # 116)

[Fidei Defensor]

"This is the truth of a Christian’s life: self-giving and love—love of God and, for God’s sake, love of one’s neighbour—founded on sacrifice."

[Fidei Defensor]

"Have you noticed how human love consists of little things? Well, divine Love also consists of little things."