Top 50 Josemaría Escrivá Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “An hour of study, for the modern apostle, is an hour of prayer.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

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2. “To begin is for everyone. To persevere is for saints.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

3. “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.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

4. “You need a heart which is in love, not an easy life, to achieve happiness.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

5. “The holy Rosary is a powerful weapon. Use it with confidence and you’ll be amazed at the results.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

6. “Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to discover it.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

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7. “Either we learn to find the Lord in the ordinary everyday life or else we shall never find him.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

8. “Put your heart aside. Duty comes first. But when fulfilling your duty, put your heart into it. It helps.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

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9. “Don’t neglect your spiritual reading. – Reading has made many saints.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

10. “Don’t say, “That person bothers me.” Think: “That person sanctifies me”.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

11. “If you don’t have a plan of life, you’ll never have order.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

12. “You’re bored? That’s because you keep your senses awake and your soul asleep.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

13. “Before, by yourself, you couldn’t. Now, you’ve turned to our Lady, and with her, how easy!”

— Josemaría Escrivá

14. “Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

15. “You always leave the Rosary for later, and you end up not saying it at all because you are sleepy. If there is no other time, say it in the street without letting anybody notice it. It will, moreover, help you to have presence of God.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

16. “Love our Lady. And she will obtain abundant grace to help you conquer in your daily struggle.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

17. “St. Joseph was an ordinary sort of man on whom God relied to do great things. He did exactly what the Lord wanted him to do, in each and every event that went to make up his life.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

18. “There is need for a crusade of manliness and purity to counteract and nullify the savage work of those who think man is a beast. And that crusade is your work.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

19. “If I love, there will be no hell for me.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

20. “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.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

21. “He has much who needs least. Do not create necessities for yourself.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

22. “When you decide firmly to lead a clean life, chastity will not be a burden on you: it will be a crown of triumph.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

23. “When you approach the tabernacle remember that he has been waiting for you for twenty centuries.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

24. “God is here. This truth should fill our lives, and every Christmas should be for us a new and special meeting with God, when we allow his light and grace to enter deep into our soul.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

25. “Say the Holy Rosary. Blessed be that monotony of Hail Mary’s which purifies the monotony of your sins!”

— Josemaría Escrivá

26. “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.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

27. “Among us there is no place for the lukewarm. Humble yourself, and Christ will kindle in you again the fire of love.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

28. “If you have so many defects, why are you surprised to find defects in others?”

— Josemaría Escrivá

29. “If you say the Holy Rosary every day, with a spirit of faith and love, our Lady will make sure she leads you very far along her Son’s path.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

30. “Don’t judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

31. “You go to pray; to become a bonfire, a living flame, giving light and heat.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

32. “Holy Purity is granted by God when it is asked for with humility.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

33. “All the things that are now worrying you can be put into a smile which shows your love of God.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

34. “For everyone, whatever his state – single, married, widowed, or priest-chastity is a triumphant affirmation of love.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

35. “It’s true he was a sinner. But don’t pass so final a judgement. Have pity in your heart and don’t forget that he may yet be an Augustine, while you remain just another mediocrity.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

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

— Josemaría Escrivá

37. “Have confidence. Return. Invoke our Lady and you’ll be faithful.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

38. “You can be sure you are a man of God if you suffer injustice gladly and in silence.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

39. “When we were little, we kept close to our mother in a dark alley or if dogs barked at us. Now, when we feel temptations of the flesh, we should run to the side of our Mother in Heaven, by realizing how she is to us, and by means of aspirations. She will defend us and lead us to the light.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

40. “Is it not true that your gloominess and bad temper are due to your lack of determination in breaking the subtle snares laid by your own disordered desires? The daily examination of conscience is an indispensible help if we are to follow our Lord with sincerity of heart and integrity of life.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

41. “Temptation is necessary to make us realize that we are nothing in ourselves.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

42. “We all must have the faith of children, but the doctrine of theologians.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

43. “May I give you some advice for you to put into practice daily? When your heart makes you feel those low cravings, say slowly to the Immaculate Virgin: Look on me with compassion. Don’t abandon me. Don’t abandon me, my Mother! – And recommend this prayer to others.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

44. “Don’t you long to shout to those youths who are bustling around you: Fools! Leave those worldly things that shackle the heart – and very often degrade it – leave all that and come with us in search of Love!”

— Josemaría Escrivá

45. “As soon as you willfully allow a dialogue with temptation to begin, the soul is robbed of peace, just as consent to impurity destroys grace.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

46. “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.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

47. “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.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

48. “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!”

— Josemaría Escrivá

49. “All the sins of your life seem to be rising up against you. Don’t give up hope! On the contrary, call your holy mother Mary, with the faith and abandonment of a child. She will bring peace to your soul.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

50. “For those who use their intelligence and their study as a weapon, the Rosary is most effective. Because that apparently monotonous way of beseeching Our Lady as children do their Mother, can destroy every seed of vainglory and pride.”

— Josemaría Escrivá