Awe is the finest portion of humankind...in awe one feels profoundly the immense.
-Goethe
January 2
Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
-Angela Monet
January 3
The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating, every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies.
-John Muir
January 4
Let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger; for your anger does not produce God's righteousness.
-James 1:19-20
January 5
The flash of the cardinal is a harbinger of grace, reminding me that reality consists of side by side acknowledgment of grief and joy, as in the psalms.
-Ginger Henry Geyer
January 6
Quietly trust yourself to Christ your Lord and if anybody asks why you believe as you do, be ready to tell him and do it in a gentle and respectful way.
-1 Peter 3:15
January 7
Love proves its authenticity in fidelity, but reaches its completion in forgiveness.
-Werner Bergengruen
January 8
Talk about (God's Commandments) when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down, when you get up.
-Deuteronomy 6:7
January 9
Grace is costly because it costs one's life, and it is grace because it gives one the only true life.
-Diet rich Bonhoeffer
January 10
Sacrifice is a positive act. Its essence is something given, not something given up.
-Evevlyn Underhill
January 11
Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus.
-Hebrews 12:1-2
January 12
Guard me as the apple of your eye. Hide me in the shadow of your wings.
-Psalm 17:8
January 13
I have the happiness to be a Christian, the happiness to believe, and the ambition to devote my mind, my heart, and all my strength to the service of the truth.
-Bl. Fredrick Ozanani
January 14
Let love be your greatest aim.
1 Cor 14:1
January 15
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
-George Moore
January 16
Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will know what God wants you to do, and you will know how good and pleasing and perfect His will really is.
-Romans 12:2
January 17
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, do not depend on your own understanding. Seek His will in all you do, and He will direct your paths.
-Proverbs 3:5-6
January 18
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and healing to the bones.
-Proverbs 16:24
January 19
We are born broken. We live by mending. God's grace is the glue.
-Eugene O'Neill
January 20
It seems to me that one of the greatest consolations one can have on Earth is to see other souls helped by one's efforts.
-St. Teresa of Avila
January 21
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone.
-Colossians 4:6
January 22
The older I get, the more I feel that faithfulness and perseverance are the greatest of virtues.
-Dorothy Day
January 23
There is nothing small in the service of God.
-St. Francis de Sales
January 24
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and healing to the bones.
-Proverbs 16:24
January 25
There is only one thing to be feared and that is sin. Everything else is beside the point.
St. John Chrysostom
January 26
Grief can take care of itself but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
-Mark Twain
January 27
"The light is with you for a little longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you."
-John 12:35
January 28
During painful times, when you feel a terrible void, think how the capacity of your soul is being enlarged so that it can receive God-- becoming as it were, infinite as God is infinite.
-St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
January 29
We seldom save anything we haven't learned to love.
-Paul Sears
January 30
To love anyone is to hope in them always. We should expect everything of everyone. We must dare to be love in a world that does not know how to love.
-Charles de Foucauld
January 31
I will call into my memory and think about things that bring pleasure, happiness, and spiritual joy.
Don't let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God and, trust in me. There are many rooms in my Father's house. I would not tell you this if it were not true. I am going there to prepare a place for your will come back and take you with me so that you may be where I am going.
