If you wish to be sure of the road you tread on, you must close your eyes and walk in the dark.
-St. John of the Cross
November 2
Remain calm in times of dryness.
-St. Teresa of Avila
November 3
"But immediately Jesus spoke to them and said, "Take heart, it is I: do not be afraid." Then He got into the boat with them and the wind ceased."
-Mark 6:50-51
November 4
We must love Christ and always seek Christ's embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
-St. Jerome
November 5
It is never easy to live with other people; it is much simpler to be a saint alone.
-Esther de Waal
November 6
Justice without love is not justice. Love without justice is not love.
-Mother Teresa
November 7
It is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelet in the pan for the love of God.
-Brother Lawrence
November 8
Saints look at everything with God's eyes; they measure their existence in God's light; they do not give in to confusion because they live in reality and truth.
-Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan
November 9
The truth is not that it is going to be all right; the truth is, it already is.
-Fredric Evans
November 10
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
-Confucius
November 11
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
-Matthew 5:16
November 12
We can discover meaning in life in three different ways:
1.) by doing a deed;2.) by experiencing a value; and 3) by suffering
-Viktor Frankl
November 13
It is necessary only to know that love is a direction, rather than a state of the soul.
-Simone Weil
November 14
The narrow straits of our tribulation are limited, but the large way whereby we pass along hath no end.
-St. Augustine
November 15
A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
-Thomas Baily Adlrich
November 16
Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the Cross.
-Richard J. Foster
November 17
If you cannot listen to your brother or sister, you cannot listen to the Holy Spirit.
-Virgil Vogt
November 18
Fill your soul only with such things as are pleasing to God.
-Bl. Niels Stensen
November 19
Let us love God, but with the strength of our arms, in the sweat of our brow.
-St. Vincent de Paul
November 20
Graciousness in accepting service is as blessed as graciousness in giving it.
-Sister Mary Catherine Nolan, O.P.
November 21
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become love. That is the mystery.
-Katherine Mansfield
November 22
Every act formed by charity is a revelation of God. Every word of truth and love, every hand extended in kindness, echoes the inner life of the Trinity.
-Gabriel Moran
November 23
And I will save the lame and gather the outcast, and I will change their shame to praise and renown in all the earth.
-Zephaniah 3:19
November 24
May the Passion of our Lord, Jesus Christ, always dwell in my spirit, on my lips, and in my heart.
-St. Dominic Savio
November 25
The morrow of this day will be eternity; then Jesus, will return you a hundred fold the lovely, rightful, joys that you are sacrificing for him.
-St. Therese of Lisieux
November 26
Nothing pleases God more than to be his son's helpers and to undertake the charge of saving souls.
-St. Charles Borromeo
November 27
Bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if one has a grievance against the other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so must you also do. And over all these put on love, that is, the bond of perfection.
-Colossians 3:13-14
November 28
God is never sought in vain, even when God cannot be found.
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.
