Behold, I will bring health and cure, and I will cure you and reveal unto you the abundance of peace and truth.
-Jer.33:6
August 2
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; it is our gift to each other.
-Elie Wiesel
August 3
There is no beautifier of complexion or form or behavior like the wish to scatter joy around us.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
August 4
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
-Emily Dickinson
August 5
Water moves, shaping the earth,
destroying or creating,
making its own path.
You are made of water.
-Lisa Dececca
August 6
Here in the palm of my hand is a hazlenut. see in this little thing three truths: God made it; God loves it; God keeps it. In these three truths stay and grow.
-Julian Norwich
August 7
Be good,
keep your feet dry,
your eyes open,
your heart at peace,
and your soul in the joy of Christ.
-Thomas Merton
August 8
Faith is not belief.
Belief is passive.
Faith is active.
-Edith Hamilton
August 9
And He will send out His angels with a trumpet blast, and they will gather this elect from the four winds, from one end of Heaven to the other.
-Matthew 24:31
August 10
Lord, it is time. The summer was enormous. Lay down your shadow on the sun dials, and on the meadows, set the winds free. Command the last fruits to fullness; grant them two more southerly days, press them toward perfection and chase the last sweetness into the heavy wine.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
August 11
Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need.
-Mary Baker Eddy
August 12
There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
-Alexander Wolcott
August 13
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
-Martha Washington
August 14
It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works.
-St. Clement of Alexandria
August15
Your light shall break forth as the morning and your health shall spring forth speedily.
-Isaiah 58:8
August16
As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there. . . so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
-Marian Anderson
August 17
Rise up in splendor!
Your light has come,
the glory of the Lord
shines upon you.
See, Darkness covers the Earth,
and thick clouds
cover the peoples;
But upon you the
Lord shines,
and over you
appears his glory.
-Isaiah 60:1
August 18
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton,
you may as well make it dance.
-George Bernard Shaw
August19
O, Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there thy cheerful beams.
-St. Augustine
August 20
God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars.
-Elbert Hubbard
August 21
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
-Mark Twain
August 22
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
August23
Peace is our gift to each other.
-Elie Wiesel
August24
O God, help us not to despise or oppose what we do not understand.
-William Penn
August25
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like a summer without flowers and like a homestead without a garden. It is the joyous day of the whole week.
-Henry Ward BeeCher
August 26
Place your talents and enthusiasm at the service of life.
-Bl. Pope John Paul II
August 27
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: For let the form of an object be what it may---light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
-John Constable
August 28
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
August 29
The means for maintaining perfect love is to accomplish frequent acts of love. Fire is kindled by the wood we cast into it and love is enkindled by acts of love.
-St. Alphonsus Liguori
August 30
All work becomes supremely great when it is done in the spirit of our Lord.
-Pope John Paul XXIII
August 31
Some lives, like evening primroses, blossom most beautifully in the evening of life.
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.
