Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God.
-Bl. Mother Teresa of Calcutta
July 2
For your God is the One who helps you.
1 Chronicles 12:19
July 3
Let my heart be broken with the things that break the heart of God.
-Robert Pierce
July 4
Perhaps I have given a particular wound priority in my life to the extent that I cannot get on with living. Now may be the time to go to the pool and claim my healing, to take up my life and walk again.
-Macrina Wiederkehr
July 5
In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
-Rabbi Seymore Siegel
July 6
Everyone is a reflection of how he or she is seen by others. The very way you look at people can help transform them.
-Jean Vanier
July 7
Those who go out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing; shall come home with shouts of joy, carrying their sheaves.
-Psalm 126:6
July 8
The best preacher is the heart;
the best teacher is time;
the best book is the world;
the best friend is God.
-Hebrew Proverb
July 9
The more faithfully you listen to the voice within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. And only someone who listens can speak.
-Dag Hammarskjold
July 10
Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
-2 Cor 3:17
July 11
Fear not, nor turn back, from any battle or gloom that may come upon you, but persevere in faith 'til death.
-St. Catherine of Siena
July 12
Jesus looked at them and said, "For human beings this is impossible, but for God, all things are possible."
-Matthew 19:16
July 13
Remain humble, remain simple; the more you are so, the more good you will do.
St. John Vianney
July 14
There is no handicap so great in life as the lack of courage to go on after loss or failure.
-Pam Brown
July 15
The heart is free which is held by no love other than the love of God.
-St. Bonaventure
July 16
For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
July 17
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones. And when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
-Victor Hugo
July 18
The bread you store up belongs to the hungry;
the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked;
the gold that you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor.
-St. Basil
July 19
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
-Matthew 11:28
July 20
I saw the angel in the marble and I just chiseled until I set him free.
-Michaelangelo
July 21
Gladly, therefore, will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me.
-2 Cor 12:9
July 22
I want to be remembered as an alleluia from head to foot.
-Dorothy Kazel, O.S.U.
July 23
To choose what is difficult all one's days as if it were easy, that is faith.
-W.H. Auden
July 24
If you want your faith, you have to work for it. It is a gift, but for very few is it a gift given without any demand for equal time devoted to its cultivation.
-Flannery O'Connor
July 25
The Lord sent his angel and rescued me.
-Act 12:11
July 26
"Love is sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for its own sake. Love seeks neither cause nor fruit beyond itself. Its fruit is its use. I love because I love; I love that I may love"
-St. Bernard of Clairvaux
July 27
I am not always faithful, but I never get discouraged. I abandon myself into the arms of Jesus and there I find again all that I have lost and much more besides.
-St. Therese of Lisieux
July 28
The seed is the word of God. As for the seed that fell on rich soil, they are the ones who, when they heard the word, embrace it with a generous and good heart, and bear fruit through perseverance.
-Luke 8:11,15
July 29
Jesus is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, and a shout of joy in the heart.
-St. Bernard of Clairvaux
July 30
If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often come from lives with broken promises.
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.
