With tenderness, I have given everything to His divine heart.
-St. Therese of Lisieux
July2
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-Helen Keller
July 3
How shall I make a return to the Lord for all the good He has done for me?
-Psalm 116:12
July4
If love, even human love, gives so much consolation here, what will love not be in Heaven?
-St. Jose Maria Escriva de Balaguer
July5
Always live a life full of faith and trust, letting the Lord steer your boat and even sleep in it if He wants.
-Bl. Maravillas of Jesus
July6
In the end, it's not the years in the life that count. Its the life in your years.
-Abraham Lincoln
July7
Tell me a fact and I'll learn. Tell me a truth and I'll believe. But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever.
-Indian Proverb
July 8
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
-Oscar Wilde
July 9
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
-Marcel Proust
July 10
Every difficulty that virtuous souls experience will end in peace, won through patience and perseverance.
-St. Catherine of Siena
July11
I am a sinner, and I consider myself very fortune to suffer something for the name of Jesus Christ.
-Bl. Joan Antidea Thouret
July 12
Though the grass withers and the flower wilts, the word of our God stands forever.
-Isaiah 40:8
July 13
I was ill and you cared for me.
-Matthew 25:36
July14
A young woman once said to an old woman, "What is life's heaviest burden?" And the old woman said, "To have nothing to carry."
-Jewish Proverb
July15
The slow cure is always the surest, and spiritual maladies, like those of the body, while they are apt to come on horseback, tend to depart slowly and on foot. So we must be brave and patient.
-St. Francis de Sales
July 16
Where there is great love, there are always miracles.
-Willa Cather
July 17
There is none like God...who rides through the heavens to your help, majestic through the skies.
-Deuteronomy 33:26
July 18
Let us accustom ourselves to do all things, even the smallest, in order to please Christ Jesus.
-Bl. Columba Marmion
July 19
Blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they year. Amen, I say to you many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.
-Matthew 13:16-17
July 20
Jesus, my God, I love you above all things.
-Bl. Joan Antidea Thouret
July21
We always imagine that if we felt strong, we would not mind having to carry the Cross. But the whole point is that we should not feel strong. It is our weakness that very often is our chief cross.
-Dom Hubert van Zeller
July 22
Look around at the azaleas making fuchsia star bursts in spring; look at a full moon hanging silver in a black sky on a cold night. And realize that life is glorious, and that you have no business taking it for granted. Care so deeply about its goodness that you want to spread it around.
-Anna Quindlen
July 23
To see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
-William Blake
July 24
Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven; give and it will be given to you.
-Luke 6:37-38
July25
If you've not been fed, be bread.
-Jelauddin Rumi
July26
You saw how the Lord, your God, carried you, as a man carries his child, all along your journey, until you arrived at this place.
-Dt 7:31
July 27
You wrought awesome deeds we could not hope for, such as they had not heard of from of old. No ear has heard, no eye ever seen, any God but you doing such deeds for those who wait for Him.
-Isaiah 64:2-3
July 28
Not knowing when the new dawn will come, I open every door.
-Emily Dickinson
July 29
So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the Glory of God.
-1 Cor 10:31
July 30
Do not be concerned for your life, what you are to eat, or for your body, what you are to wear. Life is more important than food and the body more than clothing.
-Luke 12:22-23
July 31
I thank Thee,Lord,for blessings big and small;
For spring's warm glow and songbird's welcome call;
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.
