Have faith, and a score of hearts will show their faith in your word and deed.
-Mary Ainge de Verve
September 2
Seek me, and you shall live.
-Amos 5:4,6
September 3
A smile confuses an approaching frown.
-Unknown
September 4
Marriage is...the seal of unbreakable friendship. Those who are united in the flesh make but one soul, And they raise a like spire of their piety by their mutual love.
-St. Gregory of Nazianzus
September5
I am convinced that no skill we ever learn is more important than throwing open every door and window to our hearts and minds and souls to (God's) grace: Embracing all the ways we can find of letting in the light.
-Patricia Livingston
September 6
Friendship, therefore, heightens the joys of prosperity and mitigates the sorrows of adversity by dividing and sharing them. Hence, the best medicine in life is a friend.
-St. Aelred of Rievaulx
September7
In every person who comes near you, look for what is good and strong, honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.
-John Rushkin
September 8
When you wonder about the mystery of yourself, look to Christ, who gives you the meaning of life. When you wonder what it means to be a mature person, look to Christ, who is the fulfillness of humanity. And when you wonder about your role in the future of the world, look to Christ.
-Pope John Paul II
September9
We can only begin to be grateful for all God's blessings. Our song of thanksgiving will go on forever.
-Psalm 103
September 10
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
-Alice Walker
September11
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
-St. Teresa of Avila
September12
Let us endeavor to live so that when we die, even the undertaker will be sorry.
-Mark Twain
September13
What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.
-Yiddish Proverb
September14
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
-Mother Teresa
September15
It isn't how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable; it's how you spend the time.
-David Brenner
September16
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking us our preaching.
-St. Francis of Assisi
September 17
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
-Rumi
September 18
Reputation is made in a moment.
Character is built in a lifetime.
-Unknown
September 19
Often make acts of love of our Lady, the saints, and the holy angels.
Make friends with them.
Talk with them frequently, using words of praise and tenderness.
When you have gained familiar access to the citizens of the heavenly Jerusalem above, you will grieve far less at bidding farewell to those of the mean city here below.
-St. Francis de Sales
September 20
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, and taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.
-Gilda Radner
September 21
Smile.
Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends?
Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.
-Walter Anderson
September 22
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither,
but just to enjoy the ice cream while it's on your plate.
-Thorton Wilder
September23
The Cross will not crush you; if its weight makes you stagger, its power will also sustain you.
St. Pio
September 24
I knew nothing; I was nothing. For this reason, God picked me out.
-St. Catherine LaBoure`
September 25
The world is full of suffering; it is also full of overcoming it.
-Helen Keller
September 26
God brings [people] into deep waters not to drown them,
but to cleanse them.
-John H. Aughey
September 27
Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.
-Ralph Sockman
September28
It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.
-St Therese of Liseux
September 29
All God's angels come to us disguised.
-James Russell Lowell
September 30
I have never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.
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.
