October 2003 Quotations
October 1
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
-Laotzu
October 2
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
-Mark Twain
October 3
A mother holds her children's hands for a little while...their hearts forever.
-Anonymous
October 4
Neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who causes the growth.
-1 Cor 3:7
October 5
Fill your soul only with such things as are pleasing to God.
-Bl. Niels Stensen
October 6
Nothing pleases God more than to be his Son's helpers and to undertake the charge of saving souls.
-St. Charles Borromeo
October 7
A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
-Ecclesiastes 6:16
October 8
Where does the love begin? In our own homes. When does it begin? When we pray together. The family that prays together, stays together.
-Mother Teresa
October 9
Nothing great is done without suffering.
-Venerable John Henry Newman
October 10
No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.
-Author Unknown
October 11
I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way.
-Exodus 23:20
October 12
My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love you! I beg pardon of you for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love you.
-Angel of Peace to Fatima children
October 13
The Psalms become like a mirror to the person singing them.
-St. Athanasius
October 14
What love really is, we must learn from Jesus. Jesus alone can awaken this love in us and enable it to flourish.
-Peter van Breemen, S.J.
October 15
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.
-Jean Vanier
October 16
Every family should have a room where Christ is welcome in the person of the hungry and thirsty stranger.
-St. John Chrystostom
October 17
The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either-but right through every human heart.
-Aleksander Solzenitsyn
October 18
So long as we imagine it is we who have to look for God, we must often lose heart. But it is the other way about: God is looking for us.
-Simon Tigwell
October 19
God passes through the thicket of the world and wherever the divine glance falls, all things are turned to beauty.
-St John of the Cross
October 20
There is nothing in your life too terrible or too sad that it will not be your friend when you find the right name to call it.
-Laurens van der Post
October 21
Don't miss life. It is your gift to unwrap as you move through the hours. It is God offering hospitality to you as you move into tomorrow.
-Macrina Wiederkehr
October 22
Blessed are You because You have made me glad. It has not turned out as I expected, but You have dealt with us according to your great mercy.
-Tobit 8:16
October 23
Do not look for love; look for ways to love.
-Eric Maisel
October 24
Do not neglect the gift that is in you.
-1 Timothy 4:14
October 25
A woman of courage enters a room, and everyone is put at ease. There is something appealing in the way she walks and in the way she hold herself.
-Maya Angelou
October 26
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully at the closed door that we do not notice which one has opened for us.
-Helen Keller
October 27
Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person.
-Mother Teresa
October 28
Relationships that do not end peacefully, do not end at all.
-Merrit Malloy
October 29
Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they must pass.
-George Herbert
October 30
God created me to be a blessing.
-Macrina Wiederkehr
October 31
When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net. Instead I learned I could fly.
-John Calvi.
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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.
(John 14:1-3)
