Either we learn to find the Lord in the ordinary everyday life or else we shall never find him
Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to discover it.
Don't say, "That person bothers me." Think: "That person sanctifies me".
You must realise now, more clearly than ever, that God is calling you to serve Him in and from the ordinary, secular and civil activities of human life. He waits for us everyday, in the laboratory, in the operating theatre, in the army barracks, in the university chair, in the factory, in the workshop, in the fileds, in the home and in all the immense panorama of work.
To begin is for everyone. To persevere is for saints.
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.
You need a heart which is in love, not an easy life, to achieve happiness.
Put your heart aside. Duty comes first. But when fulfilling your duty, put your heart into it. It helps.
You don't know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and as soon as you have said, 'Lord, I don't know how to pray!' you can be sure you have already begun.
You're bored? That's because you keep your senses awake and your soul asleep.
Say the Holy Rosary. Blessed be that monotony of Hail Mary's which purifies the monotony of your sins!
Don't neglect your spiritual reading. - Reading has made many saints.
All the things that are now worrying you can be put into a smile which shows your love of God.
He has much who needs least. Do not create necessities for yourself.
Love our Lady. And she will obtain abundant grace to help you conquer in your daily struggle.
When you approach the tabernacle remember that he has been waiting for you for twenty centuries.
To begin is easy; to persevere is sanctity.- Let your perseverance not be a blind consequence of the first impulse, the work of inertia: let it be a reflective perseverance.
If you have so many defects, why are you surprised to find defects in others?
If you don't have a plan of life, you'll never have order.
An hour of study, for the modern apostle, is an hour of prayer.
To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thorn bush, and Saint Bernard plunged into an icy pond... You - what have you done?
Among us there is no place for the lukewarm. Humble yourself, and Christ will kindle in you again the fire of love.
You always leave the Rosary for later, and you end up not saying it at all because you are sleepy. If there is no other time, say it in the street without letting anybody notice it. It will, moreover, help you to have presence of God.
Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence.
Faith, joy, optimism. But not the folly of closing your eyes to reality.
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