"From time to time you have to deal with souls as you would with a fire in the hearth, giving it a good poke to get rid of the embers, which are what shine the most but are causing the fire of the love of God to die down."
— The Forge, Josemaría Escrivá
"The Christian vocation consists in making heroic verse out of the prose of each day."
— St. Josemaria Escriva
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“You asked the Lord to let you suffer a little for Him. But when suffering comes in such a normal, human form-family difficulties and problems… or those thousand awkward things of ordinary life-you find it hard to see Christ behind it.
Open your hands willingly to those nails…and your sorrow will be turned into joy.”
-St. Josemaria Escriva
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