Josemaría Escrivá Quotes

Spanish priest, writer and Catholic saint

Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer (9 January 1902– 26 June 1975), was a Spanish priest and founder of Opus Dei.

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Alternative Names: Josemaria Escriva • Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer • Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer • Josepmaria Escrivà

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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.

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

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

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