The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.
-Swedish Proverb
January3
Do not pray for taks equal to your strength. Pray for strength equal to your tasks.
-Phillip Brooks
January 4
Holiness is not the luxury of a few. It is everyone's duty: Yours and Mine.
-Bl. Mother Teresa of Calcutta
January 5
Live in faith and hope, though it be in darkness, for in this darkness God protects the soul. Cast your care upon God for you are His and He will not forget you.
-St. John of the Cross
January6
For last year's words
belong to last year's
language
And next year's words
await another voice.
And to make an end is
to make a beginning.
-T.S. Eliot
January7
As much of Heaven is visible as we have eyes to see.
-William Winter
January 8
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin--real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. At last, it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
-Alfred D. Souza
January9
Sometimes I felt very lonely, depressed, and ill. I'd often repeat to myself a line of poetry which brought peace and strength back into my soul; it runs, "Time's but a ship that bears thee, not thy home." That image appeals to me and helps me to bear this life of exile.
-St Therese of Lisieux
January 10
If you scatter thorns,
don't go barefoot.
-Italian Proverb
January11
I live now, not I, but Christ, lives in me.
-Gal 2:20
January12
I Don't say anything to God. I just sit and look at Him and let Him look at me.
-Old Peasant of Ars
January13
God, my God, because you are mine, I lack nothing.
-St. Gertrude the Great
January14
Beauty is not in the face;
beauty is a light in the heart.
-Kahlil Gibran
January15
The angels who shine like the stars feel sympathy for our human nature and place before it God's eyes just as if it were a book.
-St. Hildegard of Bingen
January16
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
-Red Auerbach
January 17
May faith be the torch which illuminates, animates, and sustains you, so that all your actions and sufferings may be for God alone.
-St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
January18
Watch, therefore, you do not know when the Lord of the house is coming. . . May He not come suddenly and find you sleeping.
-Mark 13:35-36
January 19
{Christ} Himself said that by gentleness we inherit the earth. If we act on this, we will win people over so that they will turn to the Lord. That will not happen if we treat people harshly or sharply.
-St. Vincent de Paul
January 20
You were born an original.
Don't die a copy.
-John Mason
January 21
Our citizenship is in Heaven.
-Philippians 3:20
January 22
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
-Henri Bergson
January23
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
January24
With God, nothing, not even a headache is lost.
-Bl. Lydwina of Schiedam
January25
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced with sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
-Carl Jung
January 26
Winter is the time for comfort--it is the time for home.
-Edith Sitwell
January 27
Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.
-Bl. Mother Teresa of Calcutta
January28
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
-Pope Paul VI
January 29
God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.
-St. John Vianney
January 30
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
-Thomas Paine
January 31
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
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.
