It is best not to expose oneself to the combat when defeat is certain.
-St. Therese of Lisieux
September 2
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words and never stops at all.
-Emily Dickinson
September 3
If you spend one hour a day adoring your Lord and never do anything that you know is wrong, you will be fine.
-Mother Teresa
September 4
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
-Helen Keller
September 5
Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of your awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.
-Thomas Mann
September 6
Forgiveness is an act of faith in God, an act of hope in the future, and an act of love for our neighbors.
-John Dear, S.J.
September 7
St. Benedict points to Christ. It is as simple as that. Christ is the beginning, the way, and the end.
-Esther de Waal
September 8
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
-Bertolt Brecht
September 9
We are all resigned to death; it's life we aren't resigned to.
-Graham Greene
September 10
Every person is a mystic in that he or she experiences, in the thick of joy and pain, the power of the depths of life to bless.
-Frederick Buechner
September 11
It is not what we do that makes us holy. We make holy what we do.
-Meister Eckhart
September 12
Yet if any you suffers as a Christian, do not consider it a disgrace, but glorify God because you bear this name.
-1 Peter 4:16
September 13
Charity is a habit, not a gush of sentiment, it is a virtue, not an ephemeral thing of moods and impulses, it is a quality of the soul, rather than an isolated good deed.
So long as there are poor,
I am poor,
So long as there are prisons,
I am a prisoner,
So long as there are sick,
I am weak,
So long as there is ignorance,
I must learn the truth,
So long as there is hate,
I must love,
So long as there is hunger,
I am famished.
Such is the identification Our Divine Lord would have us make with all whom He made in love and for love.
-Bishop Fulton Sheen
September 14
Seek in reading and you will find in meditation. Knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.
-St. John of the Cross
September 15
It is within you that I must search for myself.
-St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
September 16
God does not fit in an occupied heart.
-St. John of the Cross
September 17
As for myself, I know no other means of reaching perfection but love.
-St. Therese of Lisieux
September 18
The more intense a man's faith, the closer is his union with God.
-St. John of the Cross
September 19
There is no other remedy for this evil of giving up prayer than to begin again.
-St. Teresa of Jesus
September 20
What a sweet joy to think God is just...that He takes into account our weaknesses.
-St. Therese of Lisieux
September 21
God like the sun, stands above souls ready to communicate himself.
-St. John of the Cross
September 22
I can nourish myself on nothing but the truth.
-St. Therese of Lisieux
September 23
The soul savors the exquisite joy of loving God, it savors above all the love that God pours into it.
-St. Jacques de Jesus
September 24
He does not call those who are worthy but those whom He pleases.
-St. Therese of Lisieux
September 25
A much greater love and confidence in this Lord began when I saw Him as one with whom I could converse continuously.
-St. Teresa of Jesus
September 26
When a soul gives herself wholly to God, he manifests Himself as by letting the soul discover infinite horizons of love.
-St. Teresita of the Andes
September 27
It's of capital importance to honor the most Blessed Virgin and we love her if we endeavor to imitate her virtues.
-St. Raphael Kalinowski
September 28
Perhaps the time has come for the Catholic woman also to stand with Mary and the church under the cross.
-St. Edith Stein
September 29
If you are nothing, you must not forget that Jesus is all....think only of this uniquely lovable all.
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.
