Friends of God, chapter 3

By: St. Josemaria

Ch. 3. Time is a treasure

• each year that ends is a step that takes us nearer to Heaven, our final home.
• Brief indeed is our time for loving, for giving, for making atonement
• We mustn’t squander this period of the world’s history which God has entrusted to each one of us.
• we are ready from this very moment to be generous and courageous, and take loving care of little things: we are ready to go and meet Our Lord, with our lamps burning brightly
• It is precisely those who are in love who pay attention to details, even when they’re doing apparently unimportant things
• How is it that sometimes we just can’t find those few minutes it would take to finish lovingly the work we have to do, which is the very means of our sanctification?
• How are we so lacking in calm and serenity when it comes to fulfilling the duties of our state, and yet so unhurried as we indulge in our own whims?
• these trifles are the oil
• He calls each one bearing in mind their personal circumstances,
• when you sense he’s beckoning you, even if it is at the last hour, how can you think of lingering in the marketplace,
• We should never have time on our hands, not even a second
• If you have time on your hands, ... It’s quite likely that you have become lukewarm; ... you are not doing all the good you should be doing to the people around you,
• What a shame it would be to have as one’s occupation in life that of killing time which is a God-given treasure
• God may have given us just one more year in which to serve him. Don’t think of five, or even two. Just concentrate on this one year, that has just started. Give it to God, don’t bury it! This is the resolution we ought to make.
• Allow me to insist. You think your time is for yourself? Your time is for God!
• He was hungry. The Maker of the universe, the Lord of all creation, experiences hunger! Thank you, Lord, for inspiring the sacred author to include this small touch here, a detail that makes me love you more and which encourages me to desire ardently to contemplate your sacred Humanity!
• There are no bad or inopportune days. All days are good, for serving God. Days become bad only when men spoil them with their lack of faith, their laziness and their indolence, which turns them away from working with God and for God.
• Our lives are so very short. Yesterday has gone and today is passing by. But what a great deal can be done for the love of God in this short space of time!
• Youth need not imply thoughtlessness, just as having grey hair does not necessarily mean that a person is prudent and wise.

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Fecha: 31/12/10

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