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Faith, joy, optimism. But not the folly of closing your eyes to reality.

Josemaria Escriva

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The heroic minute.- It is the time fixed for getting up.- Without hesitation: a supernatural reflection and.-.-.- up! The heroic minute: here you have a mortification that strengthens your will and does no harm to your body.
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Holy Purity is granted by God when it is asked for with humility.
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There is no danger of exaggerating. We an never hope to fathom this inexpressible mystery nor will we ever be able to give sufficient thanks to our Mother for bringing us into such intimacy with the Blessed Trinity.
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Our Lady listens attentively to what God wants, ponders what she doesn't fully understand and asks about what she doesn't know. Then she gives herself completely to doing the divine will.
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Turn to Mary, tota pulchra, all pure and wonderful, and tell her: Our Lady and Mother, the Lord wanted you yourself to look after God and tend him with your own hands. Teach me, teach us all, how to treat your Son!
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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.
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At the time of your examination(of sins) beware of the devil that ties your tongue.
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Don't neglect your spiritual reading. - Reading has made many saints.
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Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight.
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Have confidence. Return. Invoke our Lady and you'll be faithful.
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Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence.
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All the things that are now worrying you can be put into a smile which shows your love of God.
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