Josemaría Escrivá Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

The strength of a chain is the strength of its weakest link.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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