The last thing many of us think about is a way to be as gentle with ourselves as we are with others.
-Robert J. Wicks
February 2
Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding over our capacity for evil.
-David Sarnoff
February 3
Take up your life and walk!
-Macrina Wiederkehr
February 4
Let no one pull you so low as to make you hate them.
-Booker T. Washington
February 5
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
February 6
Our life is full of brokenness--broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives?
-Henri Nouwen
February 7
There are two kinds of people: Those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
-Indira Gahdhi
February 8
Hope for a great sea change on the far side of revenge.
Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.
Believe in miracles and cures and healing wells.
-Seamus Heaney
February 9
The time spent for the glory of God and the salvation of souls is never spent badly.
St. Padre Pio
February 10
Seeing is believing,
but feeling is God's own truth.
-Irish Proverb
February 11
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.
-Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
February 12
As we go out to take God to others, know that we will meet God in others.
-Marjorie Dobson
February 13
Dreams grow holy, put in action.
-Adelaide Anne Proctor
February 14
Give us ears to hear Thee speak
. Give us hearts to quicken as Thou drawest near.
-Fredrick Buechner
February 15
Force may subdue, but love gains.
-William Penn
February 16
It wouldn't take much for us to be fully present, and then to give that gift of attention--which is like a gift of love--to others.
-Sharon Salzberg
February 17
Life is filled with many wonders like the blue sky, the sunshine, the eyes of a baby.
-Thich Nhat Hanh
February 18
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.
-Sophocles
February 19
Beauty is one of the faces of God. It is God's memory of all that is holy & good, faithful & true. It often appears upon the scene when hope seems gone. It has the power to heal, restore, comfort, & delight that part of you that is overcome with grief. Beauty is God's way of reminding you of your own beauty. It is God remembering you.
-Sister Macrina Wiederkehr, OSB
February 20
We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being always gracious, yielding and considerate.
-St. Francis de Sales
February 21
Do not be held back by doubts or fears.. . . say yes with courage and without reserve.
-Pope John Paul II
February 22
He became what we are that He might make us what He is.
-St. Athanasius
February 23
O God, make us children of quietness, and heirs of peace.
-St. Clement of Alexandria
February 24
We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child who is not yet so much taller than they are.
-Fredrick Nietzche
February 25
God is always with us;
why should we not always be with God?
-Archbishop William Bernard Ullaathorne, OSB
February 26
I never looked at the masses as my responsibility. I can only love one person at a time. So I began. I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.
-Mother Teresa
February 27
Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord guards the city, the guard keeps watch in vain.
-Psalm 127:1
February 28
When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net. Instead I learned I could fly.
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.
