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
Love makes suffering fruitful and suffering deepens love.
How can a donkey work if it is not fed or given enough rest, or if its spirit is broken by too many beatings?
When the soul is happy it spreads its happiness and is an encouragement to others.
"Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them."
Though it is perfectly natural to experience sadness over loss or injury, the virtue of patience enables us to bear suffering without being broken by sorrow or led to forsake the way of virtue.
We are not called to spiritual mediocrity – to be just nice guys. We are called to holiness.
Gratitude is hardly restricted to people of faith, just as people of faith are not exempt from ingratitude.
It is a mistake to think that the natural me that I wish to flaunt is a thing of great value in itself.