You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." You must do the thing you can not do.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
January 2
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.
-Anne Frank
January 3
Perfection of life is the perfection of love. For love is the life of the soul.
-St. Fancis de Sales
January 4
As a shepherd tends his flock when he finds himself among his scattered sheep, so will I tend my sheep. I will rescue them from every place where they were scattered when it was cloudy and dark.
-Ezekiel 34:12
January 5
You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
-St. John Vianney
January 6
In Heaven, the Virgin Mary is always next to God, and there she never stops praying for us.
-St. Philip Neri
January 7
Nothing can bring greater happiness than doing God's will for the Love of God.
-Bl. Miguel Febfes Cordero-Munoz
January 8
Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter through it are many. How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life. And those who find it are few.
-Matthew 7:13-14
January 9
We ought to respect the image of God in everyone. It is there.
Bl. Rhaphaela Mary de Porras
January 10
Walk while you have the light, so that darkness may not overcome you.
-John 12:35
January 11
All of us, gazing with unveiled face on the glory of the Lord, are being transferred into the same image from glory to glory, as from the Lord who is the Spirit for God who said "Let light shine out of darkness", has shone in our heart to bring to light the knowledge of the Glory of God on the face of Christ.
-2 OCR 3:18; 4:6
January 12
Prayer conquers all things.
-St. Alphonsus de Orozco
January 13
Jesus is with me. I have nothing.
-Bl. Pier-Giorgio Frassati
January 14
Seek God, and you will find Him.
-St. Teresa of Avila
January 15
According to his promise, we await new Heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. Therefore, Beloved, since you await, these things, be eater to be found, without spot or blemish before him, at peace.
-2 Peter 3:13-14
January 16
God does not ask of us the perfection of tomorrow, nor even of tonight, but only of the present moment.
-St. Madeline Sophie Barat
January 17
Take yourself off to the garden of olives or the foot of the cross, and stay there. Our Lord will speak to you; and you listen to Him.
-St. Bernadette
January 18
I will lead the blind on their journey; by paths unknown. I will guide them. I will turn darkness into light before them and make crooked ways straight. These things I will do for them and I will not forsake them.
-Isaiah 42:16
January 19
Adoring the precious mysteries of man's redemption, give earnest thought to what has been done for you.
-St. Leo the Great
January 20
No trial has come to you but what is human. God is faithful and will not let you be tried beyond your strength; but with the trial He will also provide a way out, so that you may be able to bear it.
1 Cor 10:13
January 21
Life here below may be filled with privations and hardships, but it will come to an end and be followed by the dawn of eternal life, which knows no setting.
-Bl. Camillo Constanzo
January 22
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy and thieves break in and steal. But store up treasures in Heaven, where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.
-Mt 6:19-21
January 23
You and I are what we are when we are alone with Jesus. Talk with Him, listen to Him, look at Him.
-Core ten Boom
January 24
I have learned...that the head does not hear anything until the heart has listened. And what the heart knows today, the head will understand tomorrow.
-James Stephens
January 25
And what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and walk humbly with your God?
-Micah 6:8
January 26
Be great in little things.
-St. Francis Xavier
January 27
Jesus did not promise to take away our burdens. He promised to help us carry them.
-Joseph Cardinal Bernardin
January 28
When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I do not, then don't.
-William Temple
January 29
Little children, lit us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.
-1 John 3:18
January 30
Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.
-John Stott
January 31
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
