Famous phrases by Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer

Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer He was a Spanish priest who lived between 1902 and 1978. He has gone down in history for being the founder, in 1928, of Opus Dei and for being holy of the Catholic Church, canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2002.

Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer not only promoted a huge social work, preached with the example, serving thousands of faithful as inspiration. In the same way, their works and publications, of great intellectual content, stand out.

Famous phrases by Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer

What is needed to get happiness, is not a comfortable life, but a heart in love.

After the war comes peace. And what is peace? Peace is something close to war. Peace is a consequence of victory!

You play life for honor ... play the honor for the soul.

The heroic minute. -It's time, at point, to get up. No hesitation: a supernatural thought and ... up! -The heroic minute: there you have a mortification that strengthens your will and does not weaken your nature.

Marriage is a divine vocation.

The resistance of a chain is measured by its weakest link.

The Christian must love others, and therefore, respect the opinions contrary to his own, and live with full fraternity with those who think otherwise.

With you, Jesus, how pleasant is pain and how bright darkness!

It is not true that your days are the same! If you put love in your days, every day is different

That you are not ashamed to be a poor pot, in defect, but we will fight all your life to not have them, until the end. That's love!

The most important work is marriage and paternity.

It is also an act of generosity to smile to make the lives of others more pleasant, coming out of oneself, of selfishness, of what one seems more comfortable.

The life of faith does not consist in understanding everything because reason is limited and the wisdom of God, infinite.

To that invisible God, we find it in the most visible and material things.

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When Christians had a bad time, it is because we do not give this life all their divine sense.

God calls you to serve him in and from civil, material, secular tasks of human life: in a laboratory, in the operating room of a hospital, in the university chair, in the factory, in the workshop, in the family home and Throughout the immense work panorama, God awaits us every day.

Gold, silver, jewels, earth, lots of manure. -Enjoyment, sensual pleasures, satisfaction of appetites, like a beast, like a mule, like a pig, like a rooster, like a bull. Honors, distinctions, titles, air things, superb swelling, lies, nothing.

To get to God, Christ is the way; But Christ is on the cross, and to climb to the cross you have to have a free heart, unexpected from the things of the earth.

I hope it can be said that the characteristic that defines your life is to love the will of God.

If a person is loved a lot, you want to know everything that refers to her. -Medíte it: Are you hungry to meet Christ? Because ... with that measure you love him.

You are never afraid to tell the truth, without forgetting that it is sometimes better to shut up, for charity with others. But never cowling, for comfort or cowardice.

Pudor and modesty are little brothers of purity.

Also in these times, in spite of those who deny God, the earth is very close to heaven.

Lovers do not know how to say goodbye: they always accompany themselves.

Don't you think equality, as they understand it, is synonymous with injustice?

Fe, joy, optimism. -But not the sandez of closing the eyes to reality.

Try that where you are that good humor, that joy, which is the result of inner life.