List of the most popular hashtags for theme #WORKINGFORGOD

"We must act like souls urged on by Love and never as people under punishment or a curse. 'Whatever you do, in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.' Thus we shall complete our tasks perfectly, using our time to the full, for we shall be instruments who are in love with God. We shall be conscious of all the responsibility and trust that God has placed on our shoulders in spite of our own weaknesses. In every one of your actions, because you are relying on God's strength, you must behave as one motivated solely by Love." : St. Josemaria Escriva Friends of God, no. 71 : #JosemariaEscriva #OpusDei #TowardHoliness #Catholic #WorkingForGod

"Perhaps some of you might be thinking that the ordinary comings and goings of your working day are not going to help you much to stay close to someone as pure as Our Lady. But I would just ask you to reflect a little. What are we looking for all the time in things we do, even without thinking about it especially? If we are motivated by the love of God and we work with a right intention, then we are seeking whatever is good and clean, whatever brings peace to our conscience and happiness to our soul. Yes, you might say, but don't we still have our faults? Indeed, but it is precisely by acknowledging our faults that we are able to see, more clearly than ever, just what our goal has to be. What we are looking for is happiness; not a momentary happiness, but one that is deep and lasting and both human and supernatural." : Saint Josemaria Escriva Friends of God, no. 292 : #SaintJosemaria #TowardHoliness #WorkingForGod #Catholic #OpusDei #Quotable

"Your work, too, must become a personal prayer; it must become a real conversation with Our Father in heaven. If you seek sanctity in and through your work, you will necessarily have to strive to turn it into personal prayer. You cannot allow your cares and concerns to become impersonal and routine, because if you were to do so, the divine incentive that inspires your daily tasks will straightaway wither and die." : St. Josemaria Escriva Friends of God, no. 64 : #JosemariaEscriva #OpusDei #TowardHoliness #Catholic #WorkingForGod

"'Since we are convinced that God is to be found everywhere, we plough our fields praising the Lord, we sail the seas and ply all our other trades singing his mercies.' Doing things this way we are united to God at every moment. Even when you find yourselves isolated and away from your normal surroundings, like those boys in the trenches, you will be living in Our Lord by means of your continual hard work, which you will have learned to turn into prayer, because you will have started it and finished it in the presence of God the Father, of God the Son and of God the Holy Spirit." : St. Josemaria Escriva Friends of God, no. 66 : #JosemariaEscriva #OpusDei #TowardHoliness #Catholic #WorkingForGod

"Go about your professional duties for Love's sake. Do everything for the sake of Love and (precisely because you are in love, even though you may taste the bitterness of misunderstanding, of injustice, of ingratitude and even of failure in men's eyes) you will see the result in the wonders that your work produces – rich, abundant fruit, the promise of eternity!" : St. Josemaria Escriva Friends of God, no. 68 : #JosemariaEscriva #OpusDei #TowardHoliness #Catholic #WorkingForGod

"Since we should behave at all times as God's envoys, we must be very much aware that we are not serving him loyally if we leave a job unfinished; if we don't put as much effort and self-sacrifice as others do into the fulfillment of professional commitments; if we can be called careless, unreliable, frivolous, disorganized, lazy or useless... Because people who neglect obligations that seem less important will hardly succeed in other obligations that pertain to the spiritual life and are undoubtedly harder to fulfill. 'He who is faithful in very little is faithful also in much; and he who is dishonest in very little is dishonest also in much.'" : St. Josemaria Escriva Friends of God, no. 62 : #JosemariaEscriva #OpusDei #TowardHoliness #Catholic #WorkingForGod

"I have often said that we must not allow these periods of conversation with Jesus, who sees us and hears us from the Tabernacle, to degenerate into an impersonal type of prayer. If we want our meditation to develop right away into a personal dialogue with Our Lord (for which the sound of words is not necessary), we must shed the cloak of anonymity and put ourselves in his presence, just as we are. We must avoid hiding ourselves in the crowd that fills the church, or diluting our prayer into a meaningless patter that does not come from the heart and is little better than a reflex habit, empty of any real content." : St. Josemaria Escriva Friends of God, no. 64 : #JosemariaEscriva #OpusDei #TowardHoliness #Catholic #WorkingForGod

"You must fight against the tendency to be too lenient with yourselves. Everyone has this difficulty. Be demanding with yourselves! Sometimes we worry too much about our health, or about getting enough rest. Certainly it is necessary to rest, because we have to tackle our work each day with renewed vigor. But, as I wrote many years ago, 'to rest is not to do nothing. It is to turn our attention to other activities that require less effort.'" : St. Josemaria Escriva Friends of God, no. 62 : #JosemariaEscriva #OpusDei #TowardHoliness #Catholic #WorkingForGod

"You can be sure that it is through the circumstances of ordinary life, ordained or permitted by the infinite wisdom of divine Providence, that we come close to God. But we shall not attain our goal if we do not strive to finish our work well; if we do not sustain the effort we put in when we began our work with human and supernatural zeal; if we do not carry out our work as well as the best do and, if possible, even better than the best. And I think that if you and I really want to, we will work better than the best, because we will use all the honest human means as well as the supernatural ones which are required in order to offer Our Lord a perfect job of work, finished like filigree and pleasing in every way." : St. Josemaria Escriva Friends of God, no. 63 : #JosemariaEscriva #OpusDei #TowardHoliness #Catholic #WorkingForGod