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“Sin against charity is like piercing God in the pupil of the eye” – and he added – “What is more delicate than the pupil of the eye? To sin against charity is like a sin against nature.” – Padre Pio (Saint)
The heart of our Divine Master knows only the loving law of sweetness, humility and charity … Put your trust often in the Divine Providence of God, and be certain that rather will heaven and earth pass away than that our Lord should fail to protect you. – Padre Pio (Saint) |
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To criticize, to destroy, is not difficult: the clumsiest laborer knows how to drive his pick into the noble and finely-hewn stone of a cathedral.
To construct-that is what requires the skill of a master. –Saint Josemaria Escriva
Serve your God straightforwardly; be faithful to him, and don’t worry about anything else. For it’s a great truth that if you “seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, all other things” – material things, the means – “will be given you besides”. He will provide them for you. –Saint Josemaria Escriva
Cast away that despair produced by the realization of your weakness. It’s true: financially you are zero, and socially another zero, and another in virtues, and another in talent …
But to the left of these zeros is Christ …And what an immeasurable figure it turns out to be! –Saint Josemaria Escriva
You realize you are weak. And so, indeed you are. In spite of all that – rather, because of it-God has sought you. He always uses inadequate instruments so that the work may be seen to be His.
From you He asks only docility. –Saint Josemaria Escriva
When you really give yourself to God, no difficulty will be able to shake your optimism. –Saint Josemaria Escriva |
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Courage! You can! Don’t you see what God’s grace did to that sleepy, cowardly Peter, who had denied him … to that fierce, relentless Paul, who had persecuted him? –Saint Josemaria Escriva
The choicest morsel, if eaten by a pig, turns - to put it bluntly - into pig’s meat!
Let us be angels, so as to dignify the ideas we assimilate.
Let us at least be men and convert our food into strong, fine muscles or perhaps into a powerful brain, capable of understanding and adoring God.
But let us not be beasts, like so many, so very many! –Saint Josemaria Escriva
Why feel hurt by the unjust things people say of you? You would be even worse, if God ever left you.
Keep doing good, and shrug your shoulders. –Saint Josemaria Escriva
Don’t you think that equality, as many people understand it, is synonymous with injustice? –Saint Josemaria Escriva
I don’t know why you’re amazed: the enemies of Christ were never very reasonable.
When Lazarus was raised from the dead, you might have thought they would yield and confess the divinity of Jesus. But no! “Let us kill Him who gives life!” They said.
It’s the same today. –Saint Josemaria Escriva |
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Worry? Never! That’s to lose your peace. –Saint Josemaria Escriva
If you abandon yourself once more in God’s hands, the Holy Spirit will give light to your understanding and strength to your will. –Saint Josemaria Escriva
Acknowledgments: We thank the Publishers for allowing us to publish the Quotes of the modern Saints Padre Pio & Josemaria Escriva, so that they could be accessed by more people all over the world; as a source of God’s encouragements to all of us. 25 May 2013
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