March 2001 Quotes
March 1
Nothing is so strong as real gentleness; nothing as gentle as real strength.
-Anonymous
March 2
There is enough light for those who desire only to see, and enough darkness for those of a contrary disposition.
-Anonymous
March 3
The eye in which I see God is the same eye in which God sees me. My eye and God's eye are one eye, and one seeing one knowing and loving.
-Meister Eckhart
March 4
Love is the measure of our ability to bear crosses.
-St. Teresa of Avila
March 5
I hide myself in His magnificence and His wisdom; but when I ponder His goodness; my heart can say nothing--I can only adore.
-St. Teresa of the Andes
March 6
A stumble may prevent a fall.
-English Proverb
March 7
We know full well that , of all things fair and honorable, the best is to possess God forever.
-Anonymous
March 8
May this be our prayer: "I do not want to turn my eyes from you, O God. There I want to stay and not move. No matter what happens to me, within or without.
-St. Catherine of Genoa
March 9
A clear rule for self control handed down by the Lord is this:
Stop eating while still hungry.
-Anonymous
March 10
It seems that the soul's good cannot be merited or gained through all the trials one can suffer on earth. This good is a gift from the Lord of Heaven and Earth who gives accordingly to who He is.
-St. Teresa of Avila
March 11
O, my Jesus, I understand well that, just as illness is measured with a thermometer and a high fever tells us of the seriousness of the illness; so also, in the spiritual life, suffering is the thermometer which measures the love of God in a soul.
-St. Faustina
March 12
if I am called to the solitary life, it does not necessarily mean I will suffer more acutely in solitude than anywhere else, but that I will suffer more effectively.
-Thomas Merton
March 13
Spiritual life is merely ordinary life lived with God at its center.
-Jean Maalbuf
March 14
Patience is the companion of Wisdom.
-St. Augustine
March 15
Even if Jesus lays on us some part of the Cross, He is there to help us bear it with self, sacrifice and love.
-Blessed John XX111
March 16
One way to call your mind easily back to God during your fixed prayer times and to hold it steadier, is to not let it take much flight during the rest of the day.
-Brother Lawrence
March 17
I understood so well that it is only love which makes us acceptable to God. That this love is the good I ambition Jesus deigned to show me in the road that leads to the this divine furnace, and this road is the surrender of the little child who sleeps without fear in his Father's arms.
-St Therese of Lisieux
March 18
When music is truly beautiful and inspired, it speaks to us more than all of the other acts of goodness, virtue and peace.
-Pope John Paul II
March 19
He who fights even the smallest distractions faithfully, when he says even the smallest prayer, will also be faithful in great things.
-St. Louis de Montfort
March 20
In times of aridity, when I am incapable of praying or practicing virtue, I seek little opportunities, mere trifles, to give pleasure to Jesus. For instance, a smile, a pleasant word when inclined to be silent and to show weariness. If I find no opportunities, I at least tell Him again and again that I love Him, that is not difficult and it keeps alive the fire in my heart. Even though this fire of love might seem extinct, I would still throw little straws upon the embers and I am certain that it would rekindle.
-St. Therese of Lisieux
March 21
All people are equal. It is not birth; it is virtue alone that makes the difference.
-Voltaire
March 22
Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
-St. Therese of Lisieux
March 23
Jesus, you have given me to know and understand in what a soul's greatest consists: not in great deeds but in great love. Love has its worth and it confers greatness on all our deeds. Although our actions are small and ordinary themselves because of love they become great and powerful before God.
-St. Faustina
March 24
Idleness begets a life of discontent. It develops self-love, which is the cause of our miseries and renders us unworthy to receive the favors of divine love.
-St. Ignatius Loyola
March 25
The praise is not in the deed done; but in the matter of its doing.
-Jeremy Taylor
March 26
Love is something if you give it away, you end up having more.
-Malvina Reynolds
March 27
We can only learn to love by loving.
-Doris Murdock
March 28
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
-Mother Teresa
March 29
We can not really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-Agnes Repplier
March 30
To love is to receive a glimpse of Heaven.
-Karen Sunde
March 31
Do all the good you can.
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can.
-John Wesley
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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 you...I will come back and take you with me so that you may be where I am going.
(John 14:1-3)
