Josemaría Escrivá Quotes

First, prayer; then, atonement; in the third place, very much 'in the third place', action.

You are ready to give your life for your honour ... Be ready to give up your honour for your soul.

True virtue is not sad or disagreeable, but pleasantly cheerful.

With God's grace, you have to tackle and carry out the impossible, because anybody can do what is possible.

The understanding that so many people demand of others is that everyone should join their party.

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

Gold, silver, jewels: dust, heaps of manure. Gratification, sensual pleasures, satisfaction of the appetites: like a beast, like a mule, like a cock, like a pig, like a bull. Honours, distinctions, titles: things of air, puffs of pride, lies, nothingness.

The higher a statue is raised, the harder and more dangerous the impact when it falls.

Those in love do not know how to say good-bye: they are with one another all the time.

You are too calculating. Don't tell me you are young. Youth gives all it can: it gives itself without reserve.

I am every day more convinced that happiness in Heaven is for those who know how to be happy on earth.

People who are stupid, unscrupulous, or hypocritical, think that others are just the same. And — this is the real pity — they treat them as if they were.

It is easier to bustle about than to study, but it is also less effective.

All the things of this world are no more than earth. Place them in a heap under your feet and you will be so much the nearer to heaven.

Never say of anybody under you: he is no good. It is you who are no good, for you cannot find a place where he will be of use.