Take every event gently & quietly, and oppose good nature and cheerfulness to every contradiction.
-St. Elizabeth Ann Seaton
February2
Let nothing disturb thee.
Let nothing affright thee.
All things are passing.
Patience obtains all things.
He who has God has everything.
God alone suffices.
-St. Teresa of Avila
February3
Rich is the person who has a praying friend.
-Janice Hughes
February 4
Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.
-1 Peter 3:7
February5
One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
-Bl. Mother Teresa of Calcutta
February6
The ashes on my forehead are another manifestation of the name of Jesus. This is the name of those that He most closely resembled in his life on Earth: the poor, the homeless, those denied justice, those who sit in the ashes of grief and dispossession.
-Martin Warner
February7
We need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left our difficulties with Him. To know in that way is a prerequisite of all true prayer.
-Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
February 8
By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but Divine Love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it take delight in its suffering.
-St. Alphonse Liguori
February9
It would be easier for the world to exist without the sun than without the holy sacrifice of the Mass.
-St. Pio of Pietrelcina
February10
Happiness is a direction, not a destination.
-Anonymous
February11
There are limits to self indulgence but none of self restraint.
-Ghandi
February12
The moment may be temporary but the memory is forever.
-Bud Meyer
February 13
Hold a true friend with both hands forever.
-Proverbs
February14
Kisses are the messengers of love.
-Proverb
February15
The best mirror is an old friend.
-Anonymous
February16
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
-Aesop
February17
Our Goal is God, the source of all good. Place your trust in God and in no one else.
-St Jerome Emiliani
February18
The whole of our life should be a season of prayer.
-St. Basil the Great
February 19
God will give either what we ask or what Gad knows to be more profitable for us.
-St. Bernard Clairvaux
February 20
In loving and serving, we prove that we have been created in the likeness of God, for God is love and when we love, we are like God. This is what Jesus meant when he said, "Be perfect as your Father in Heaven is perfect."
- Bl. Mother Teresa of Calcutta
February 21
In this mortal life, mercy and forgiveness are the path which always leads us to grace.
-Bl. Julian of Norwich
February 22
Here is the fast you must keep for God:
Do not commit any wicked deed in your life
and serve the Lord with a pure heart.
-The Shephard of Hermas
February23
Most gently the finger of your justice, in love and compassion, touches the wounds of those who are to be healed.
-St. Ephrem of Syria
February24
Hope is like a road in the country;
there wasn't ever a road,
but when many people walk on it,
the road comes into existence.
-Lin Yutang
February25
A young village girl told me, "When I am about to talk to anyone, I picture to myself Jesus Christ and how gracious and friendly He was to everyone."
-St. John Vianney
February 26
Hold a true friend with both hands.
-Nigerian Proverb
February 27
A hug is cheap, environmentally friendly and needs minimal instruction.
-Princess Diana of Wales
February28
Life doesn't happen according to plan. But we are free to dream.
-Natsuo Kirino
February 29
I must jog on the allotted path through all its windings and weariness until it brings me Home, where all tears will be wiped away and sorrow and sighing be heard not more.
