My joy is your strength. A Merry heart doeth good like a Medicine.
(Neh 8:10; Prov. 17:22)
June2
Faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
June 3
Before prayer, endeavor to realize whose presence you are approaching, and to whom you are about to speak. We can never fully understand how we ought to behave towards God, before whom Angels tremble.
-St Teresa of Avila
June 4
My soul...can see no other remedy pleasing to God than peace.
-St. Catherine of Siena
June 5
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-M. Gandhi
June 6
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
-Joseph Addison
June 7
Go where your best prayers take you.
-Frederick Buechner
June 8
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him, "What are you going through?"
-Simone Weil
June 9
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
-Amelia Earhart
June 10
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
-Louis L'Amour
June 11
God is mercy within mercy within mercy.
-Thomas Merton
June 12
Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, and looks to God alone; laughs at the impossibilities, and cries, "It shall be done."
-Charles Wesley
June13
All I know is that prayer constructs a velvet bridge
And Walking it we are aloft, as on a springboard,
Above landscapes the color of ripe gold...
-Czeslaw Milosz
June 14
Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank.
-Christina Rossetti
June15
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
-John Wooden
June16
For beauty is never without truth, nor truth never without beauty.
-St. Francis de Sales
June 17
One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, make me the kind of man my daddy is.
Later that night, the father prayed: Dear God, make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.
-Anonymous
June18
The Eternal is the judge of all things without exception;
the Lord alone is just.
Whom has He made equal to describing his works, and who can probe his mighty deeds?
Who can measure his majestic power, or exhaust the tale of his mercies?
One cannot lessen, nor increase, nor penetrate the wonders of the Lord.
-Sirach 18:1-4
June19
There is work, and there is love, and we have but one heart.
-Edgar Degas
June 20
True charity consists in putting up with all one's neighbors fault's; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues.
-St Therese of Liseux
June 21
If you want a happy ending, it depends where you stop the story.
-Orson Wells
June 22
Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
St. Thomas Moore
June23
Some lives, like evening primroses, blossom most beautifully in the evening of life.
-Author Unknown
June24
A little reed in the hand of grace becomes a mighty staff.
-Jean Pierre Camus
June25
If the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or a touch of joy within your heart, then in living--I have made my mark.
-Thomas L. Odem, Jr.
June 26
The eyes of the Lord are upon those who love Him;
He is their mighty shield and strong support,
A shelter from the heat, a shade from the noonday sun, a guard against stumbling, a help against falling.
He buoys up the spirits, brings a sparkle to the eyes, gives health and life and blessing.
-Sirach 34:13-17
June 27
You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you may prevent them from stopping them to build their nests in your hair.
-Chinese Proverb
June28
Religion consists of God's question and our answer.
-Abraham Joshua Heschel
June 29
Look upon yourself as a tree planted beside the water, which bears its fruit in due season; the more it is shaken by the wind, the deeper it strikes its roots into the ground.
-St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
June 30
If you are armed with the armor of faith, nothing can harm you.
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.
