“So your strength is failing you? Why don't you tell your mother about it? ... Mother! Call her with a loud voice. She is listening to you; she sees you in danger, perhaps, and she-your holy mother Mary-offers you, along with the grace of her son, the refuge of her arms, the tenderness of her embrace ... and you will find yourself with added strength for the new battle.” ChristianMotherVoiceGraceFailingDangerSonArmsListeningHolyBattleOffersEmbraceLoudFinding YourselfMaryTendernessRefugeLoud VoicesHoly MaryMother Mary Author:Josemaria Escriva
“At the time of your examination(of sins) beware of the devil that ties your tongue.” GodChristianFaithBeliefReligiousSinDevilCatholicTongueChristian InspirationalTiesSatanConfessionExaminationCommitment To GodIntimacy With GodCommunion With GodConnecting With GodConversations With God Author:Josemaria Escriva
“When you approach the tabernacle remember that he has been waiting for you for twenty centuries.” Has BeensChristianRememberWaitingCenturyHolyApproachTwentiesCatholicSaintCommunionEucharistWaiting For YouCatholic SaintHoly CommunionEucharisticHoly Eucharist Author:Josemaria Escriva
“Many Christians take their time and have leisure enough in their social life (no hurry here). They are leisurely, too, in their professionally activities, at table and recreation (no hurry here either). But isn't it strange how those same Christians find themselves in such a rush and want to hurry the priest, in their anxiety to shorten the time devoted to the most holy sacrifice of the altar?” WantEnoughChristianSocialSacrificeStrangeHolyActivityAnxietyTablesPriestsLeisureDevotedCommunionAltarsSocial LifeRecreationHoly Communion Author:Josemaria Escriva
“I assure you, my children, that when a Christian carries out with love the most insignificant everyday action, that action overflows with the transcendence of God. That is why I have told you so often, and hammered away at it, that the Christian vocation consists in making heroic verse out of the prose of each day. Heaven and earth seem to merge, my children, on the horizon. But where they really meet is in your hearts, when you sanctify your everyday lives.” HeartChildrenInspirationSeemsActionEarthChristianFaithHeavenEverydayChristian InspirationalMy ChildrenEach DayProseCarrieHorizonHeroicVersesEveryday LifeVocationInsignificantTranscendenceHeaven And EarthOverflowSanctifyHammeredTold You So Author:Josemaria Escriva
“Christian optimism is not a sugary optimism, nor is it a mere human confidence that everything will turn out all right. It is an optimism that sinks its roots into an awareness of our freedom, and the sure knowledge of the power of grace. It is an optimism that leads us to make demands on ourselves, to struggle to respond at every moment to God's call.” HumansMomentsChristianTurnsStruggleGraceAwarenessDemandRootsOptimismMere Author:Josemaria Escriva
“When we were little, we kept close to our mother in a dark alley or if dogs barked at us. Now, when we feel temptations of the flesh, we should run to the side of our Mother in Heaven, by realizing how she is to us, and by means of aspirations. She will defend us and lead us to the light.” IfsFeelsShouldMeanLittlesLightRunningChristianMotherHeavenSidesRealizingReligiousDarkDogCatholicFleshTemptationAspirationDefendersAlleysClergymenVirgin MaryBlessed MotherDark Alleys Author:Josemaria Escriva