God has work to do that will not be done without us.
-St. Augustine
June 2
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
-Voltaire
June 3
We can move only because first we have stopped before God; we can work only because first we have rested with God; we can give only because first we have received from God; we can love only because first we have been loved by God.
-Adolfo Quezada
June 4
True holiness consists in doing God's will with a smile.
-Mother Teresa
June 5
By the tender mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will break upon us, to give light to those who sign in darkness and the shadow of death, and to guide our feet into the way of peace.
-Luke 1:78-79
June 6
There is never a pilgrim who returns home without one less prejudice and one new idea.
-St. Thomas More
June 7
The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue & constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification.
-St. Francis de Sales
June 8
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
-Gandhi
June 9
God is light and there is no darkness at all in Him. If, then, we say that we have fellowship with him, yet at the same time live in the darkness, we are lying both in our words and in our actions. But if we live in the light--just as He is in the light--then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His son, purifies us from every sin.
-1 John 1:5-7
June 10
The Lord overthrows the thrones of rulers, and enthrones the lowly in their place.
-Sirach 10:14
June 11
Aim at charity. By this path of love, Christ came down to us. By it, we too may ascend to Him.
-St. Leo the Great
June 12
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
June 13
We breathe in and we breathe out. With each inhalation, we accept God's gift of life. With each exhalation, we put ourselves out into the world.
-Adolfo Quezada
June 14
It is not a matter of asking God to come and bless my small space, my moment of life; it is a matter of seeing that this life, already, is in the embrace of a great power.
-Paula D'Arcy
June 15
God could never let you suffer a pain or reversal, or experience sadness if it could not in some way minister to your perfection. If He did not spar His own son on the cross for the redemption of the world, then you may be sure that He will sometimes not spare your wants that you might be all you need to be: happy & perfect children of a loving father.
-Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
June 16
The chief reason for all the misunderstanding of Christ's teaching is that it is considered to be a teaching we can accept without changing our lives.
-Leo Tolstoy
June 17
The world is God's language to us.
-Simone Weil
June 18
Hell is in heaven and heaven is in hell. But devils see only darkness while angels see only the light.
-Jacob Boehme
June 19
In Holy Communion we have Christ under the appearance of bread. In our work we find Him under the appearance of flesh and blood. It is the same Christ.
-Mother Teresa
June 20
Only in the spiritual life are children free to choose their parents.
-St. Gregory of Nyssa
June 21
What other liberty is there worth having, if we have not freedom and peace in our own minds?
-Henry David Thoreau
June 22
There are only two classes of people in the world: those who fall and stay down, and those who fall and get up again. Count your resurrections as well as your falls.
-Bishop Fulton J. Sheen.
June 23
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise, we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
-Thomas Merton
June 24
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of a mystery.
-Annie Dillard
June 25
O, Sacred fires & flames of the heart of my Savior, rush in upon my heart and the hearts of all my brethren, and kindle them into as many furnaces of love for my most loving Jesus.
-St. John Eudes
June 26
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 do for them, and I will not forsake them.
-Isaiah 42:16
June 27
Everything the Lord did in the world, he did out of love.
-St. Thomas of Villanova
June 28
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and to let it come in.
-Morrie Schwartz
June 29
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen.
-Annie Sexton
June 30
There are two ways of reflecting light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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.
