# The Way

- Author: [Josemaría Escrivá](https://www.leafyquotes.com/josemaria-escriva.md)
- Quotes: 5
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/josemaria-escriva/the-way

## Quotes

> Gold, silver, jewels: dust, heaps of manure. Gratification, sensual pleasures, satisfaction of the appetites: like a beast, like a mule, like a cock, like a pig, like a bull. Honours, distinctions, titles: things of air, puffs of pride, lies, nothingness.

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> All the things of this world are no more than earth. Place them in a heap under your feet and you will be so much the nearer to heaven.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/josemaria-escriva/the-way/all-the-things.md)

> You are too calculating. Don't tell me you are young. Youth gives all it can: it gives itself without reserve.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/josemaria-escriva/the-way/you-are-too.md)

> True virtue is not sad or disagreeable, but pleasantly cheerful.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/josemaria-escriva/the-way/true-virtue-is-not.md)

> First, prayer; then, atonement; in the third place, very much 'in the third place', action.

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