Saint Josemaria Escriva Quotes & Sayings

I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try. — Giuseppe Verdi

290 To reform. Every day a little. This has to be your constant task if you really want to become a saint. — Josemaria Escriva

There's beauty and darkness in everything: Sorrow in joy, life in death, throns on the roses. You can't escape pain and torment anymore then you can give up joy and beauty ... — Cate Tiernan

When we vote we participate in the construction of a context ... — Aberjhani

In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other. — Poppy Z. Brite

The bouillon cubes of discrete human-like intellects thus melt into an algorithmic soup. — Nick Bostrom

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." — Josemaria Escriva

Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier. — Marty Meehan

I pretty much know that directing means that you have to answer about a thousand questions every day and you have to answer them quick. — Colin Hanks

You strayed from the way and did not return because you were ashamed. It would be more logical if you were ashamed not to return. — Josemaria Escriva

Most of the things that need to be said about the President are things he can't say himself. — Robert Teeter

To begin is for everyone. To persevere is for saints. — Josemaria Escriva

Our services serve a specific need. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Put differently, the liberation of world markets, a process powered by the liberation of unprecedented amounts of fossil fuels from the earth, has dramatically sped up the same process that is liberating Arctic ice from existence. — Naomi Klein

People complain because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses because I have finally learned not to pick them the next time around. — Shannon L. Alder

Don't neglect your spiritual reading. - Reading has made many saints. — Josemaria Escriva

We go where our deepest desires take us. — Deepak Chopra

I was just over high school, and I was kind of artsy. — Sara Shepard

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? — Josemaria Escriva