Don't let your life be barren. Be useful. Make yourself felt. Shine forth with the torch of your faith and your love.
The Way #1
Josemaria Escriva
Forgiveness, then, is the requirement for a true worship of God.
It is necessary for one to know, to hope and to struggle with persevering patience, realising that this is what pleases God.
Gratitude is hardly restricted to people of faith, just as people of faith are not exempt from ingratitude.
We have to learn to abandon ourselves, leaving the results of our struggle in God’s hands, for only abandonment, trust in God, can overcome this unrest.
It is a mistake to think that the natural me that I wish to flaunt is a thing of great value in itself.
We need patience to endure the sorrow that besets us so that we do not betray the good we have.
"I think the wise person’s essential gift is tender receptivity."
The gift of fortitude, which is so necessary in our path toward heaven, is obtained from God through prayer and the sacraments.