May those who sow in tears reap with shouts of joy.
-Psalm 126:5
February 2
...for I well know that in the sight of our Lord God there is no chance or accident; wherefore I had to grant that all things that are done are well done, for our Lord does them all.
-St. Julian of Norwich
February 3
Know that even when you are in the kitchen, our Lord moves amidst the pots and pans.
-St. Teresa of Avila
February4
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take nothing that you have received...but only what you have given.
-Jan Karon
February5
One need not be a saint in order to love. But it would appear that only someone who has loved can be a saint.
-Robert Ellsberg
February6
There is always enough time in a day to do God's will.
-Roy Lessin
February7
Be Thou the goal of my pilgrimage, and my rest along the way.
-St. Augustine
February 8
We do not die from the darkness. We die from the cold.
-Miguel de Unamuno
February 9
God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever God's glance falls it turns all things to beauty.
-St. John of the Cross
February 10
I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.
-Anne Morrow Lindberg
February 11
If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can not be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar.
-Lagdon Mitchel
February 12
You induce yourself to reverence by admiring God's immensity and beholding your smallness.
-St. Bonaventure
February 13
When I gaze with open eyes at what You, my God, have created here, heaven is already mine.
-Hildegard of Bingen
February 14
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone.
-Colossians 4:6
February 15
The older I get, the more I feel that faithfulness and perseverance are the greatest virtues.
-Dorothy Day
February16
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith, but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister has nothing to wear and has no food for the day and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well," but you do not give them the necessities of the body, what good is it?
-2 James 14-16
February 17
Knowing that your love matters is the foundation on which to build a life.
-Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen
February 18
Every creature, whether it speaks or is silent, whether in Heaven or on Earth, gives glory to its Maker.
-Saint Basil
February 19
My master urges me on; He speaks to me of nothing but the eternity of love.
-St. Elizabeth of Trinity
February 20
The God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory through Christ will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you after you have suffered a little.
-1 Peter 5:10
February 21
To find holiness, do the next thing you have to do, do it with your whole heart, and find delight in doing it.
-Meister Eckhart
February 22
Here is a test to find if your mission on Earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't.
-Richard Bach
February 23
So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day.
-2 Corinthians 4:16
February 24
Patience is not very different from courage. It just takes longer.
-James Richardson
February25
Any occurrence that moves us out of taking life for granted is a gift.
-Robert J. Wicks
February26
If you accept the Lord's peace into your hearts, the darkness will not be able to overwhelm you. There is nothing that you and God cannot face together.
-Joseph Bernardin
February27
It is good to have an end to journey toward but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
-Ursula K. Le Guin
February 28
The devil writes down our sins--our guardian angel all our merits. Labor that the guardian angel's book may be full and the Devil's empty.
-St. John Vianney
February 29
Holy ground exists right in our own backyard when we love in ways we didn't think we could, when we call upon our best selves to be present to one another.
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.
