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  • Those who are most anxious to put up a good show in life: what if the cross of Christ should bring them some trouble! (Galatians 6, 12)

  • As we were dead through our sins, he gave us life with Christ. By grace you have been saved! (Ephesians 2, 5)

  • And he raised us to life with Christ, giving us a place with him in heaven. (Ephesians 2, 6)

  • At that time you were without Christ, you did not belong to the community of Israel; the covenants of God and his promises were not for you; you had no hope and were without God in this world. (Ephesians 2, 12)

  • I say to you, then, and with insistence I advise you in the Lord: do not imitate the pagans who live an aimless kind of life. (Ephesians 4, 17)

  • Their understanding is in darkness and they remain in ignorance because of their blind conscience, very far from the life of God. (Ephesians 4, 18)

  • that you may be happy and enjoy long life in the land. (Ephesians 6, 3)

  • So I feel torn between the two. I desire greatly to leave this life and to be with Christ, which will be better by far, (Philippians 1, 23)

  • but it is necessary for you that I remain in this life. (Philippians 1, 24)

  • holding to the Word of life. I shall feel proud of you on the day of Christ on seeing that my effort and labor have not been in vain. (Philippians 2, 16)

  • who almost died for the work of Christ; he risked his life to serve me on your behalf when you could not help me. (Philippians 2, 30)

  • Unite in imitating me, brothers and sisters, and look at those who walk in our way of life. (Philippians 3, 17)


“Não queremos aceitar o fato de que o sofrimento é necessário para nossa alma e de que a cruz deve ser o nosso pão cotidiano. Assim como o corpo precisa ser nutrido, também a alma precisa da cruz, dia a dia, para purificá-la e desapegá-la das coisas terrenas. Não queremos entender que Deus não quer e não pode salvar-nos nem santificar-nos sem a cruz. Quanto mais Ele chama uma alma a Si, mais a santifica por meio da cruz.” São Padre Pio de Pietrelcina