Top 15 Josemaría Escrivá Quotes

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

Work is man's original vocation. It is a blessing from God, and those who consider it a punishment are sadly mistaken.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 pedant interprets the simplicity and the humility of the wise man as ignorance.

Even in our times, despite those who deny God, earth is very close to Heaven.

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

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

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.