Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
-Hebrews 11:1
July2
Faith is not simply a patience which passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit which bears things. . . with blazing serene hope.
-Corazon Aquino
July 3
My soul can see no other remedy pleasing to God than Peace.
-St. Catherine of Siena
July 4
Sometimes on the way to your dream, you get lost and discover a better one.
-Proverb
July 5
Children are the bridge to Heaven.
-Persian Proverb
July 6
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
-Woodrow Wilson
July 7
Even if God does not immediately give us what we ask, even if many people try to put us off our prayers; let us still go on praying.
-St John Chryststom
July 8
Life is like an ice cream cone; you have to lick it one day at a time.
-Charles M. Schulz
July 9
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
-Indira Ghandi
July 10
Somewhere we know that without silence,
words lose their meaning,
that without listening,
speaking no longer heals,
that without distance,
closeness cannot cure.
-Henri Nouwen
July 11
As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is Love.
-Edith Stein
July 12
God's will--peacefully do at each moment what at that moment ought to be done.
-St. Katherine Drexel
July13
"Abide in me as I abide in you. . .If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you."
-John 15:46-7
July 14
It is when you are really living in the present--working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much--that you are living spiritually.
-Brenda Ueland
July15
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
-Mohandas Gandhi
July16
God creates each soul differently, so that when all the mud is finally cleared away, his light will shine through it in a beautiful, colorful, totally, new pattern.
-M. Scott Peck
July 17
Ask where the good road is, the godly paths you used to walk in, in the days of long ago.
Travel there, and you will find rest.
-Jeremiah 6:16
July18
Forgiveness is love in its most noble form.
-Anonymous
July19
It's only when you grow up, and step back from (your father), or leave him for your own career and your own home--it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love.
-Margaret Truman
July 20
Faith supplies staying power. Anyone can keep going when the going is good, but some extra ingredient is needed to keep you fighting when it seems that everything is against you.
-Norman Vincent Peale
July 21
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
-Marcel Proust
July 22
The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything.
-St. Julian of Norwich
July23
What the caterpillar calls the end, God calls a butterfly.
-Church sign in Indiana
July24
A saint is a sinner who keeps on trying.
-Aung San Suu Kyi
July25
If you are on a road with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
-Bumper sticker
July 26
Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.
-Anne Morrow Lindberg
July 27
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
-Helen Keller
July28
A soul arms itself by prayer for all kinds of combat.
-St. Faustina Kowalska
July 29
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
-Kahlil Gibran
July 30
Humility is the route to Heaven. A loving acceptance of it when we are humiliated usually rises up, guiding us, as it were, step by step from one virtue to the next, until we reach Heaven.
-St. Vincent de Paul
July 31
I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the Heavens forever.
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.
