Get used to lifting your heart to God, in acts of thanksgiving, many times a day. Because he gives you this and that. Because you have been despised. Because you haven't what you need or because you have. Because he made his Mother so beautiful, his Mother who is also your Mother. Because he created the sun and the moon and this animal and that plant. Because he made that man eloquent and you he left tongue-tied… Thank him for everything, because everything is good.

Have you seen the dead leaves fall in the sad autumn twilight? Thus souls fall each day into eternity. One day, the falling leaf will be you.

You say that you don't know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and once you have said, 'Lord, I don't know how to pray!' rest assured that you have begun to do so.

Never speak of impure things or events, not even to lament them. Remember that such matter is stickier than pitch. Change the subject or, if that is not possible, continue with it, speaking of the need and the beauty of purity — a virtue of men who know the value of their souls.

Over-eating is the forerunner of impurity. • Text in chapter 'Holy purity' in the book 'The Way' of Josemaría Escrivá. Link: https://escriva.org/en/camino/holy-purity/

Dreadful will the judgement appear for those who knew the way perfectly well, showed it to others or demanded that they should follow it, but would not go along it themselves. —God will judge and condemn them out of their own mouths.

Anyone who hides a temptation from his director shares a secret with the devil. —He has become a friend of the enemy.