Let us love God, but with the strength of our arms,
in the sweat of our brow.
-St. Vincent de Paul
October 3
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
-George Washington
October 4
We are always on God's mind. [God] loves each of us as if there is nobody else in the world.
-David Scott
October 5
God never costs too dear, however much we pay.
-St. John of Avila
October 6
I prayed, and prudence was given me;
I pleaded, and the spirit of wisdom came to me.
I preferred her to scepter and throne,
And deemed riches nothing in comparison with her,
nor did I liken any priceless gem to her;
because all gold, in view of her, is a little sand.
-Wisdom 7:7-9
October 7
There are three stages in the work of God:
impossible, difficult, done.
-James Hudson Taylor
October 8
To know what you prefer instead of saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
October 9
He humbled you by letting you hunger, then by feeding you with manna, with which neither you nor your ancestors were acquainted, in order to make you understand that one does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
-Deuteronomy 8:3
October 10
Charity gives life to all virtues.
-St. Catherine of Siena
October 11
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
-William Shakespeare
October 12
God is in the prepositions:
beyond, among, within, beneath.
-Sharon Daloz Parks
October 13
If there be anywhere on Earth a lover of God who is always kept safe, I know nothing of it. But in falling and rising again, we are always kept in that same precious love.
-St Julian of Norwich
October 14
The best way to know God is to love many things.
-Vincent Van Gogh
October 15
People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see the positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
-Thich Nhat Hanh
October 16
What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life--to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
-George Eliot
October 17
God creates each soul differently, so that when all the mud is finally cleared away, God's light will shine through it, in a beautiful, colorful, totally new pattern.
-M. Scott Peck
October 18
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hated confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illuminizes it.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
October 19
Surrender is yielding to God's dream for us.
-James Krisher
October 20
Eternity--Oh, how near it seems to me now!. . .Oh, how long will be the duration of the beautiful day in which there is not night? Oh, that we may spend it in praising, blessing, and adoring forever.
-St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
October 21
Devotion. . . banishes from our soul all difficulty and heaviness and makes us prompt and ready to undertake all that is good. It is a spiritual nourishment, a dew from heaven, a breath wafted to us from the Holy Spirit. It so regulates, strengthens, and transforms the heart. . . as to give. . . a new taste and keenness for spiritual things.
-St. Peter of Alcantara
October 22
When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
-Elizabeth Bowen
October 23
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
-Margaret Laurence
October 24
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
-Aristotle
October 25
Before you had a being, God loved you. Before your father or mother was born, God loved you. . . And how long before creation has God loved you? Perhaps for a thousand years or for a thousand ages. It is needless to count years or ages; God loves you from eternity.
-St. Alphonsus Liguori
October 26
A clear conscience is a continual Christmas.
-Ben Franklin
October 27
Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year--it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.
-Author Unknown
October 28
The time for healing of the wounds has come. The time to build is upon us. There is not easy road to freedom. We must therefore act together as a united people for reconciliation.
-Nelson Mandela
October 29
Remember that you have only one soul;
that you have only one death to die;
that you have only one life. . .
If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
-St. Teresa of Avila
October 30
For a Christian, a person, though distant, is never a stranger.
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.
