The most beautiful stones have been tossed by the wind and washed by the waters and polished to brilliance by life's strongest storms.
-Anonymous
August2
What is impossible with men is possible with God.
-Luke 18:27
August 3
I will be a success if, when I stand at the beginning of eternity, God remembers my life on earth with a smile.
-Donald X. Burt, OSA
August4
You must not think of yourself as left alone. Christ lives deep inside you and is present in your heart through faith.
-St. Augustine
August 5
Let love be your greatest aim.
1 Corinthians 14:1
August6
A soul can do nothing that is more pleasing to God than to communicate in a state of grace.
-St. Alphonsus Liguori
August7
Notice how the flowers grow. They do not toil or spin. But I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of them. If God so clothes the grass in the field that grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow, will He not much more provide for you, o you, of little faith?
-Luke 12:27-28
August 8
During the course of the day, recollect as often as you can that you stand in the presence of God. Consider what He does and what you are doing. You will find His eyes turned towards you and perpetually fixed on you with an incomparable love.
-St. Francis de Sales
August 9
Oh, how everything that is suffered with love is healed again!
-St. Teresa of Avila
August 10
To most, even good people, God is a belief. To saints, God is an embrace.
-Francis Thompson
August 11
The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.
-Isaiah 40:8
August 12
Let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds...let us encourage one another.
-Hebrews 10:24-25
August13
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
-Sir Edmund Hillary
August 14
I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present things, nor future things, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
-Romans 8:38-39
August15
Recourse to Mary is a most secure means to conquer all the assaults of Hell.
-St. Alphonsus Liguroi
August16
How powerful and good God is.
-St. Bernadette
August17
We are the wire; God is the current. Our only power is to let the current pass through us.
-Carlo Carretto
August 18
I will heal them and lead them; I will give full comfort to them and to those who mourn for them, I, the Creator, who gave them life. Peace, Peace, peace to the far and the near, says the Lord; and I will heal them.
-Isaiah 57:18-19
August 19
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
-Laurence Sterne
August20
Heaven is the soul finding its own perfect personality in God.
-Philips Brooks
August21
Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen. Because of it the ancients were well attested. Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us rid ourselves of every burden and sin that clings to us and persevere in running the race that lies before us.
-Hebrews 11:1-2. 12:1
August22
Relax. We are secure. God is running the show.
-Eugene H. Peterson
August 23
Forgiveness is love practiced among people who love poorly. It sets us free without wanting anything in return.
-Henri Nourwen.
August24
My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I can, whenever I can, for as long as I can, with whatever I have, to try to make a difference.
-Jimmy Carter
August 25
To know silence perfectly is to know music.
-Carl Sandburg
August26
Every tree is known by its own fruit.
-Luke 6:44
August 27
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful and frightening than the risk it took to blossom.
-Anais Nin
August28
No matter how arduous the path, and how much effort is expended, in the end the awakening of the heart comes as an act of grace.
-Jack Kornfield
August29
Those who say, "I love God," but hate their brothers and sisters, are liars; for those who do not love a brother or sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen.
-1 John 4:20
August30
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
-Antoine de St. Exupery
August 31
We sometimes wonder why we are still on earth. Perhaps it is to make the life of one who feels insignificant more hopeful and more full.
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.
